To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties

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

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost