“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

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

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty”

“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 and destroy the weak.”

“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, be forced to do what is against his will.”

“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.”

“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”