True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
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.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.