Freedom
is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any
chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
He
is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside.
William Cowper (1731-1800)
None
are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are
free.
Goethe (1749-1832)
What
a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty
of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free
themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton (1886-1967)
The
basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in
what we are free not to do.