A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.