The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.