“Man is created free, and is free,
Though he be born in chains.”

“Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.”

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them.”

“If e'er thy breast with freedom glow'd,
And spurn'd a tyrant's chain,
Let not thy strong oppressive force
A free-born mouse detain.”

“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it”

“Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.”

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”

“Only indifference is free. What is distinctive is never free, it is stamped with its own seal, conditioned and chained.”