from Ignazio (pronounced In-yahtz- io) Silone

"Liberty isn't something you are given as a present," said Spina. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it. He who thinks with his own head is a free man. He who struggles for what he believes to be right is a free man. Even if you live in the freest country in the world and are lazy, callous, apathetic, irresolute, you are not free but a slave, though there be no coercion or no oppression. Liberty is something you have to take for yourself. It's no use begging it from others." -Bread and Wine (1937)

(Keep in mind that Mr. Silone was a double-agent for Il Duce's Fascist government.)

Still!!!!!!!