 | Europe - 1775 - 454 pages
...ought not to will. We rnuft have continua ly prefent to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a. right of doing whatever the laws permit v and ff a citizen could do what they forbid, he would be no longer poflefled of liberty, becaufe all... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1793 - 412 pages
...ought not to will. We muft have continually prefent to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be poflefled of liberty, becaufe all his fellow-citizens would have the fame power. " The... | |
 | John Buddo - Education - 1801 - 206 pages
...ought not to will. We ought always to have prefent to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit : and, were a citizen to do what they forbid, he would be no longer poflefled of liberty, becaufe all his... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1802 - 378 pages
...ought not to will. We muft have continually prefent to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit ; and if a ciTieen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be pofleffed of liberty, becaufe all his fellow... | |
 | Trials - 1820 - 704 pages
...enabled to use violence. Some have annexed it tc one form df government, and others to anotlter. But liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit; and if a citizen should do what they forbid, he would DO longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow subjects... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...ought not to will. We must have continually present to OUT minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...citizen could do what they forbid, he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power. — Montesquieu. [See... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1871 - 846 pages
...ought not to will. We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would enjoy the same power." Spirit... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...ought not to will. We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever...and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would enjoy the same powe»." Spirit... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 914 pages
...ought not to will. We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen conld do what they forbid, he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...lightness of the taxes. 3151 Montesquieu : Spirit of Laws. Bk. xili. Ch. 12. (Nugent, Translator.) Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit;...citizen could do what they forbid, he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power. 3152 Montesquieu :... | |
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We must have continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his... 
