The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Nessuno è più schiavo di colui che si ritiene libero senza esserlo

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world's flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm and outward tideWe hear a promise, hard to understand:From the compulsion that all creatures binds,Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.