No duty, however, binds us to ...

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
 Benjamin Constant

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)
 Benjamin Constant
The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.
 Benjamin Constant