“no man is free until he s a master of himself!!”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”
“A truly free man is not free 'from' anything, nor free 'to' anything, he is just free. Free within himself.”
“God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
“A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.”