The writer, a free man addressing free men, has only one subject – freedom.[L’écrivain, homme libre s’adressant à des hommes libres, n’a qu’un seul sujet : la liberté.]
The wild bird never wants to go into the cage.[Skogfuglen vil aldrig ind i buret.]
The truly free man wants only what he can do and does what he pleases.[L’homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu’il peut, et fait ce qu’il lui plaît.]
The state is the embodiment of concrete freedom.
The spirits of Truth and Freedom – these are the Pillars of Society.[Sandhedens og frihedens ånd, det er samfundets – støtter.]
The price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one’s own antagonists.
The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
