Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything.

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

I content myself with my own. I wish to command only my own subjects; but on the other hand I do not choose that anyone shall have it in his power to command me.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

I care about people, but if they try to control me, I don't care about them.

If you don't uphold a contract, which is an agreement, then you've got nothing.

I don't sign contracts on a whim.

I'm going to do everything I'm supposed to do - except roommates. No roommates. I quietly paid for my own room on the road. I didn't want to tell anyone.

When you're independent, you're with somebody because you want to be there not because you feel like you have to be there.

Being completely free to choose what to do is actually quite difficult

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Freedom. I won't let you down.

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom.