“Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long i...” — Montesquieu Quote

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

It's very easy as a viewer to judge what you're seeing on television, but every single character is based off of a human being who was born, and was given a set of circumstances in the way that they were raised, and has lived the whole life.

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.