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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.
Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.
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?
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects read more
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage read more
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.