I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.
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Charles Montesquieu was a 17th-century French judge, historian, and political philosopher. Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, intellectual, historian, and political philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia →