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 Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
 Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?  
 Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
 Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? 
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
A man is either free or he is not.
A man is either free or he is not.
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark read more
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest read more
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
 And all are slaves besides.  
 He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
 And all are slaves besides. 
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.