"Whether I am free to write this speech in favor of freedom and against necessity, or whether I am not free. If I am free, then I have achieved the desired outcome, and I should not strive for truth. If I am not free, however, I should not be blamed for it, as I do not do it by my own deliberate choice, but out of inevitable necessity".
(John Bramhall)

"The question is not whether a person is free to act, that is, whether he can write or not write, speak or remain silent, at his will, but whether the will to write and the will not to write come to him according to his will or according to anything else that is within his power".
(Thomas Hobbes)