The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) American businessman and statesman

Baruch, The Public Years (1960)

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In A Philosophy for Our Time (1954), Baruch wrote, "The only freedom man can ever have is the freedom to discipline himself."

Variant: "The greatest freedom man has is the freedom to discipline himself."