True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

in The Great Quotations by George Seldes, p. 220 (1966). Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989). In the editor's introduction to Edwards's Freedom of the Will, ed. Paul Ramsey, p. 12 (1957), is a succinct summary of a portion of Edwards's definition of terms, part 1, section 5 (p. 164): "In other words, a man is free to do what he wills, but not to do what he does not will."