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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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.