It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. Voltaire
If you desire freedom, then try first to free yourself from yourself. Nikolaj Velimirovic
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Louis Brandeis
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Fairchild Barton
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The cockroach inside the oakum, the more it tries to free itself, the more it's caught. Sicilian Proverb