The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThat man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLet it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau