[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Madison (1751–1836), U.S. president. “Spirit of Governments” (February 20, 1792). W.T. Hutchinson et al., The Papers of James Madison, vol. 14, p. 233, Chicago and Charlottesville, Virginia (1962-1991).
