I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isnt free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community. – Robert M. Gates

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. – Harriet Ann Jacobs