Being a slave means having someone as your master, with no hope of changing it. p.126

I want you to promise me two things...The first is that you promise never again to steal anything, from anybody. Neither from fine ladies in sedan chairs, nor from poor people like ourselves—one is too dangerous and the other...well, it's disgraceful, though I don't expect you to know what that means. p. 24

Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice. p.108

Freedom is a hard habit to break. p. 127

...most things are right or wrong only in their backgrounds; few things are good or evil in themselves. p.124

The people are free...at the cost of loss of individual freedom for each of you—and I don't except the Chief Officer or...