“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law ”

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom”

“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment”

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”

“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life”