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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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