The people in the countryside, who are the great part of the people, are not very careful of their liberty; they are too busy and too full of their individual matters of business.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic countryside liberty
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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