"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself." ― Elbert Hubbard Topic(s): Freedom Tags: every, lived, tyrant More From Elbert Hubbard "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much." "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." "This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum." More In Freedom "What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s."― L. Neil Smith "Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."― Aldous Huxley "If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness."― Leon Kass