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Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!
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O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: Pleasures of Hope (l. 381)
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The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
Bertrand Russell
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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
Stephen R. Covey
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
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You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions
William Glasser
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Freedom all solace to man gives:
He lives at ease that freely lives.
John Barbour
Quotes , Source: The Bruce (bk. I, 225)
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. . . for righteous monarchs,
Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see;
To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.
Henry Brooke
Quotes , Source: Earl of Essex (act I)
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Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
A limit to the giant's unchained strength,
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?
William Cullen Bryant
Quotes , Source: The Ages (XXXIII)
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Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Sacred Songs--Sound of loud Timbrel
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England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this
youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of
Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of
Switzerland.
- Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
Quotes , Source: Supposititious Speech of James Otis--The Rebels (ch. IV)
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O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
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Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword
Fallen Kosciusco.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quotes , Source: Sonnet
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work
and in that work does what he wants to do.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quotes , Source: Sonnet
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