“Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid…”
“Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid…”

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“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 have the same power.”

Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

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