Helvetia

Happy Helvetia! to what charter do you owe your liberty? to your courage, to your resolution, to your mountains.

“But I am your emperor.”

“But I do not want you any longer.”

“But your fathers were my father’s slaves.”

“It is for that very reason that their children do not wish to serve you.”

“But I had the right belonging to my rank.”

“And we have the right of nature.”

Why is liberty so rare?

Because it is the chiefest good.