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Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.
Even God cannot make two times two not make four.
There is none of you who would not publicly exclaim that everyone should be moderator and arbitrator in his own matter, who would not command all citizens to use rivers and public places equally and indifferently, who would not with all his power defend the liberty of going hither and thither and trading.
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.
I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.
Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
