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.

(1957) and a Ph. Wilson was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and a member of the International Council of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. (2010 with John J.

A Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College he was a co-author of the 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory. James Quinn Wilson (May 27 1931 – March 2 2012) was an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration.