 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 302 pages
...subscription price was raised to $4. In 1797 the heading contained this quotation from Montesquieu: ' ' 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 of his fellow citizens would have the same power." pher, in the issue... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1906 - 304 pages
...subscription price was raised to $4. In 1797 the heading contained this quotation from Montesquieu : ' ' 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 of his fellow citizens would have the same power." Substituted for... | |
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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... 
