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We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in read more
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
Men freely believe that which they desire.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of read more
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this
youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of
Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of
Switzerland.
- Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
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.
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.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than read more
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win read more
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
