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Liberty is absence of restraint. Freedom is participation in government.
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Legally, the term liberty means absence of duty, or rather the limit of duty.
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Liberty, as such, is only the negative of duty, the absence of restraint or compulsion.
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Other races of immigrants, by contact with our institutions, have been civilized—the negro has only been domesticated.
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The 'liberty' of one is his permission to act as he pleases, supported against interference by the power of the concern or government
of which he is a member.
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The concept of property itself had come up out of the common law and carried with it the idea of a natural, or common-law rights of liberty to acquire, use and dispose of physical things.
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The binding power of custom is its security of expectations. What has happened before may be expected to happen again, and he who arbitrarily disappoints expectations must be restrained or punished.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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John R. Commons
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Born:
October 13, 1862
Died:
May 11, 1945
(aged 82)
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