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.
タグ: liberty, difference, independence, doing

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
タグ: feel, society, war, strength
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
タグ: should, birth, man, death
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
タグ: should, birth, men, death
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
タグ: whose, happy, people
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
タグ: tyranny, name, law, justice
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