 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...taxes. 3151 Montesquieu : Spirit of Lawn. Bk. xiii. Ch. 12. (Nu9ent, Translator. ) Liberty is a ri^ht 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 have the same power. 3152 Montesquieu :... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...Bk. xiii. Ch. 12. (Nugent, Translator.) Liberty is a ri^ht of doing whatever the laws permit; arid if a 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 :... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1890 - 1014 pages
...continually present to our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a righfof doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid, he would no longer he possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would enjoy the same power." Spirit... | |
 | History - 1894 - 772 pages
..."GeorgeTown : (On Potom.ik) Printed l>y Ureen, English, & Co. every Friday, at Three Dollars per annum. 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. — Afontcsyuieu."... | |
 | James Schouler - United States - 1908 - 328 pages
...external clog upon our rights we see and feel the weight constantly. " Liberty " says Montesquieu " 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." Civil... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Thomas Edward Watson, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming, Joseph Walker McSpadden - American literature - 1909 - 658 pages
...still further in the motto line, starting out with the quotation from Montesquieu : ' ' Liberty is the 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." This... | |
 | Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 608 pages
...Book XI, chs. i-vi. We must have 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 fellowcitizens would have the same power. 4. The same Subject... | |
 | George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...643. 6<» 6 RCL p. 265. 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." M0... | |
 | 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. —... | |
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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... 
