It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

For God would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself with a liberty of this kind.

The fact is, it's good to be free. No one ever marches against freedom, chanting, "Down with liberty! Back to bondage! I want to do only what the government tells me to do!

All moral choices are free choices. No one can be praised or blamed for an act in which they had no free choice. If they were forced to do it, then they can't get either credit or blame. Hence if God destroyed all freedom, He would be destroying all possibility to love, praise, and worship Him — to say nothing of destroying all possibility of our enjoying His or other people's love, praise, and sacrifice on our behalf.

Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.

Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings? Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors—be they of a biological, psychological or sociological nature?

There is nothing conceivable which would so condition a man as to leave him without the slightest freedom. Therefore, a residue of freedom, however limited it may be, is left to man in neurotic and even psychotic cases. Indeed, the innermost core of the patient's personality is not even touched by a psychosis.

It is this spiritual freedom—which cannot be taken away—that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death…

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.