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Montesquieu on War

1689–1755 France

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I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

Lettres Persanes (1721)

No kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

Persian Letters (1721)

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Lettres Persanes (1721)

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced wars; it is the intolerant spirit animating that which believed itself in the ascendant.

Lettres Persanes (1721)

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