Though King Bello's palace was not put together by yoked men; your federal temple of freedom, sovereign-kings! was the handiwork of slaves.
"It is not gildings, and gold maces, and crown jewels alone, that make a people servile.

There is much bowing and cringing among you yourselves, sovereign-kings! Poverty is abased before riches, all Mardi over; any where, it is hard to be a debtor; any where, the wise will lord it over fools; every where, suffering is found.
"Thus, freedom is more social than political.

And its real felicity is not to be shared.

_That_ is of a man's own individual getting and holding.

It is not, who rules the state, but who rules me.