“True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.”

“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”