Men whom one could not consider wicked are punished like scoundrels, which is the thing in the world most contrary to the spirit of moderate government.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic government spirit
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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