Only free men can change their minds and be surprised; and while no men are completely free, some are freer than others.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

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

free people have no masters but themselves

It is in a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.

we are all prisoners of our thoughts.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

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

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

As long as he owns your tools he owns your job, and if he owns your job he is the master of your fate. You are in no sense a free man. You are subject to his interest and to his will. He decides whether you shall work or not. Therefore, he decides whether you shall live or die. And in that humiliating position any one who tries to persuade you that you are a free man is guilty of insulting your intelligence.