Born Quote by Mary C. Ames

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

— Alexander Hamilton

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

— Walt Disney

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

— James A. Baldwin

“There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave,”

— George R.R. Martin

When a free man dies, he loses the pleasure of life. A slave loses his pain. Death is the only freedom a slave knows.…

— Spartacus

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

— Toussaint Louverture

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the…

— Anonymous

A free man chooses, a slave obeys

— Andrew Ryan

Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau