For the State, in relation to its members, is master of all their goods by the social contract, which, within the State, is the basis of all rights; - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Protestants are generally better educated than Catholics. This ought to be so: the doсtrine of the former requires discussion, that of the latter submission. The Catholic ought to adopt the decision he is given, the Protestant ought to learn to decide for himself.

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

"The "sociable" man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment."