Friedrich Schiller

It is the man who wants freedom the most
Who is the same man who cannot live free.
Desiring freedom, he is under the steward of tyrant
After tyrant. Nowhere could he go, where he was free.
He was continually a slave to one nobleman or another.
The precious angst it created.
Precious is the angst, however,
For the man speaks a true desire of the human heart.
Though, unable to live free, he teaches all how precious freedom is.

Yet, I've found the purest freedom is to live nobly
And to keep pushing forward with the talent Providence has gifted you.
Then, at some point, one will break free;
For, to desire what is in your means and modest blessing
Is the true mark of someone who is free.
And to believe in God, for without Christ,
Even the freest man is never truly free.
He is always a slave to his earthly circumstance.