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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is read more
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart--
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--
To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases read more
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
Where liberty is, there is my country.
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.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
