The idea of liberty long current was that the solitary man was the free man, that the man outside society possessed freedom but that in society he had to sacrifice as much as his liberty as interfered with the liberty of others. But this tells only half the tale.
Freedom is the harmonious, unimpeded working of the law of one's own nature.
The true nature of every man is found only in the whole. Hence free-will is not caprice or whim or a partial wish or a momentary desire. On the contrary freedom means exactly the liberation from the tyranny of such particularist impulses. When the whole-will has supreme dominion in the heart of man, then there is freedom. The mandate of our real Self is our liberty.