The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.
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