a Corruption seldom begins with the people; from their middling enlightenment they have often derived a stronger attachment to that which is established.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic corruption enlightenment
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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