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Quote from Charles-Louis de Secondat,


"In republican governments, men are all equal;
equal they are also in despotic governments:
in the former, because they are everything;
in the latter, because they are nothing."


By:

Charles-Louis de Secondat (more quotes by Charles-Louis de Secondat or books by/about Charles-Louis de Secondat)


(1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu

Source:

"The Spirit of Laws" (1748)

Categories:

Collectivist, Despotism, Equality, Government, Individualism, Republic

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