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To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
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.
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.
. . . for righteous monarchs,
Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;
To rule read more
. . . for righteous monarchs,
Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;
To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
