A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Charles de Montesquieu
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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We must have constantly present in 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 no longer be possessed of liberty.
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Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.
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