I learned how easy it was for any man to do what he wanted to do, provided he really wanted to do it badly enough.

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II. Men who were both dangerous and promising precisely because of their fundamental innocence; men prone, in the end, to disappointment.

A man is free when he sees clearly the fulfillment of his being and is thus capable of making the envisioned self a reality.

He could do what all men wanted to, that is, fly

The individual living in America as it was meant to be would be free to run his business as he wishes, associate with those he likes, dissociate from those he dislikes or disapproves; hire, fire, rent to or evict from, invest and disinvest, speak and misspeak at will. This hypothetical free man is at liberty to bruise as many feelings as he likes, so long as his mitts stop at the next man's face. So long as he harms nobody's person or property, our mythic man may live as he wishes to live.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

A man is what he wills himself to be.