Montesquieu

“No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.”

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”

“Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.”

“We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.”

“There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.”

“Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.”