When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
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Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in read more

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

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.

O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
. . .
Ah me! they view'd beneath read more

O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
. . .
Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword
Fallen Kosciusco.