Those who say that all men are equal speak the greatest truth if they mean that all men have an equal right to liberty, to the possession of their goods, and to the protection of the laws”; but”equality is at once the most natural and the most chimerical thing in the world: natural when it is limited to rights, unnatural when it attempts to level goods and powers.”106 ”Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free; it is this which the English have won. . .”To be free is to be subject to nothing but the laws.”
