No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Table Talk (l. 260)
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. V, l. 733)
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I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
The crack of the whip like shots in battle,
The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads
That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;
The green beneath and the blue above,
And dash, and danger, and life and love.
Frank Desprez
Quotes , Source: Lasca
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I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Conquest of Granada (act I, sc. 1)
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We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Boston (st. 5)
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My angel,--his name is Freedom,--
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Boston Hymn
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I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
W.N. Ewer
Quotes , Source: Five Souls
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It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born
carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
Emile Faguet
Quotes , Source: said in response to Rousseau, i.e., man being born free, but everywhere in chains
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes , Source: Faust (act V, sc. 6)
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
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A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Anonymous
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
Ronald Reagan
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I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
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No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
Margaret Sanger
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.
Dostoevsky
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To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
Beethoven
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Emerson
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
Hume
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No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
Ronald Reagan
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