 | William Nelson - American newspapers - 1918 - 672 pages
...English, & Co. George-Town, (Potomak) every Tuesday and Friday at 4 1 )ollars per annum," and this motto : "Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit...and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow citizens would have the same power. — Montesquieu."... | |
 | William Nelson - American newspapers - 1918 - 666 pages
...(On Potomak) Printed by Green, English, & Co. every Friday, at Three Dollars per annum. Liberty is n right of doing whatever the laws permit ; and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer be possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have , the same power. —... | |
 | Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson - Sermons, English - 1924 - 1102 pages
...less than exists inmodern democratic states. Thus Montesquieu, quoting Cicero, says: "Liberty is the 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 fellow-citizens would be possessed of the same power." This may... | |
 | George Arthur Malcolm - Constitutional law - 1926 - 812 pages
...ought not to desire. 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." M Yet,... | |
 | Law - 1906 - 530 pages
...ought not to will. We must ba.\e continually present to our 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." Again, the same author... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Debates and debating - 1927 - 206 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 have the same power. (Chap.... | |
 | Law - 1923 - 454 pages
...state was instituted. Montesquieu points out in his ' ' Spirit of Laws" that political liberty "is the right of doing whatever the laws permit; and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer have liberty, since the rest would have the same power." Thus, to him, paradoxical as it... | |
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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... 
