All rights reserved. If, then, it happens in such a way as you were formed by nature to bear it, do not complain but bear it as you were formed by nature to do. But if it happens in such a way as you were not formed by nature to bear it, do not complain, for it will perish after it has consumed you. Depart then, satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied. What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty.
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the soul to undertake.
It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made and the choice may be a hard one. The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailors, constables, possee comitatus etc. Such command no more respect than men of straw or as a lump of dirt.