Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.