Liberty is the right to do whatever the laws permit.
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Baron de Montesquieu Quote
“Ever since the invention of gunpowder…I continually tremble lest men should, in the end, uncover some secret which would provide a short way of abolishing mankind, of annihilating peoples and nations in their entirety.”
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