A free nation can have a liberator; a subjugated nation can have only another oppressor.
For any man who has enough strength to drive out the one who is already the absolute master in a state has enough strength to become one himself.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic strength state
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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