“A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.”

Very nicely put.Very encouraging.

I am free, and our government is my hinderance.

Freedom is a state of spiritual, moral, mental and emotional being such as can be realized only under the aegis and tutelage of Virtue.

"Freedom" experienced in the absence of Virtue is a delusion.

A good start at describing freedom. Freedom is an inherent state of being; the expression thereof can be hindered as Joe said above. A legal measurement of liberty realized will illuminate proportionally the free beings expression.

As good as it gets.