“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap.”

“There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.”

“If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.”

“Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free — he is in his own trap.”

“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.”

“If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.”

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

“No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.”

“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.”

“No man is free who is not master of himself. ”