“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty
“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.
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them
“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
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free
“To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life
“I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence
“Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.