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Without liberty, all is lost

Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 19, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories laws, libertyTags James Wilson

Without liberty and law

Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 20, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags James Wilson

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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