Everything conspires to take away from a man who is set in authority over others the sense of justice and… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

The mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to the law we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.