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One must take everything away in order to give something and begin by making a bad subject in order to make a good slave.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
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Date
1748
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English
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"One must take everything away in order to give something and begin by making a bad subject in order to make a good slave." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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