If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone
or brass, it will beat read more

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone
or brass, it will beat them down.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our read more

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.

Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.