The inflexibility of the laws, which prevents them from adapting themselves to circumstances, may, in certain… — Jean Jacques Rousseau
The inflexibility of the laws, which prevents them from adapting themselves to circumstances, may, in certain cases, render them disastrous, and make them bring about, at a time of crisis, the ruin of the State.
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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.
At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
