“If I knew something useful to me, and harmful to my family, I would reject it from my mind. If I knew something useful to my family, and not my country, I would try to forget it. If I knew something useful to my country, and harmful to Europe, or useful to Europe and harmful to Mankind, I would look upon it as a crime.”
– Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, and political philosopher.
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