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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, ...more

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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

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Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate an...more

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Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

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Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions tha...more

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Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, r...more

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Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things...more