A man without fear cannot be a slave.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

— a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

for a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one,

I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he chooses ignorance because he is lay, then he is a fool, for the ignorant are put to hard labor digging and hauling stones for masters who tell them they need no knowledge. If a man must labor from dawn to dusk to avoid a blow on the head and to earn a cup of grain, he has no time to gain knowledge and remains a slave to masters. I think, therefore, that is is a worthy vocation to free a man enough that he can learn who he is and what he is capable of, where he came from and what philosophies steer his life.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.

Essentially man is not a slave either of himself or of the world; but he is a lover. His freedom and fulfilment is in love, which is another name for perfect comprehension.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.