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It is natural for a people to leave a bad country in search of a better and not for them to leave a good country in search of a worse.
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Law
(1748)
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The Spirit of Law
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1748
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Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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"It is natural for a people to leave a bad country in search of a better and not for them to leave a good country in search of a worse." Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748).
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