While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.

For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more

A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects read more

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it read more

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.