Arbitrary Quote by Ludwig von Mises

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

— Epictetus

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and…

— Salvador de Madariaga

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude…

— Rudolf Rocker

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

— John F. Kennedy

Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes…

— Erich Fromm

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

— Elie Wiesel

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

— Michel de Montaigne

Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.

— Frederick Lenz

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero