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?

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.

Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.

Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what read more

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wants to do.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where read more

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.