"I'll tell you all the same: liberty of mind!—liberty within law!—liberty within the frontiers of conscience."
"Then you do not deny these privileges to me?"
"They are yours, Thusis. No man can deny essential rights and liberties."
"You believe I have a right to act as my conscience dictates?"
"Absolutely."
"To run away from authority?"
"If your mind approves."
"And—and devote my life—risk it—to free my native land and restore to my sovereign what once belonged to him?"
"Naxos?"
"Yes."