“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free
“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life
“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom