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Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Republican Rallying Cry
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A man is either free or he is not.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Republican Rallying Cry
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Freedom all solace to man gives:
He lives at ease that freely lives.
Author: John Barbour
Source: The Bruce (bk. I, 225)
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Whose service is perfect freedom.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Collect for Peace
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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.
Author: Henry Brooke
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?
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: The Ages (XXXIII)
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Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 76)
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 98)
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For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Giaour (l. 123)
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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),
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Sacred Songs--Sound of loud Timbrel
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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.
Author: Thomas Campbell
Source: Pleasures of Hope (l. 381)
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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,
Author: Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
Source: Supposititious Speech of James Otis--The Rebels (ch. IV)
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To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistles (XI, 3)
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O what a loud and fearful shriek was there!
. . .
Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword
Fallen Kosciusco.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Sonnet
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No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Table Talk (l. 260)
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides.
Author: William Cowper
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.
Author: Frank Desprez
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.
Author: John Dryden
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?
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: W.N. Ewer
Source: Five Souls
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It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born
carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
Author: Emile Faguet
Source: said in response to Rousseau, i.e., man being born free, but everywhere in chains
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Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.
Author: William Godwin
Source: Enquirer (II, XII, 402)
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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.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (act V, sc. 6)
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Source: None
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Author: Edward Abbey
Source: None
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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.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
Author: Ronald Reagan
Source: None
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I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Author: Voltaire
Source: None
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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.
Author: Margaret Sanger
Source: None
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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.
Author: Dostoevsky
Source: None
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He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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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.
Author: Beethoven
Source: None
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Author: Emerson
Source: None
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
Author: Kris Kristoffersen
Source: None
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A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Author: Adlai Stevenson
Source: None
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
Author: Hume
Source: None
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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.
Author: Ronald Reagan
Source: None
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Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Source: None
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A hungry man is not a free man.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
Source: None
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
Source: None
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world.
We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers
and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.
Author: Wendell Berry
Source: None
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No one can ever defeat the Afghans
(in Rambeau 3).
Author: Richard Crenna
Source: None
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One need not obey the rules
if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.
Author: O Anna Niemus
Source: None
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Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.
Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Source: None
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Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
Source: None
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Author: Thomas Paine
Source: None
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Love, not force, rides the horse.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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The world's 'freeest'
country has the highest
number in prison.
Author: Arundhati Roy
Source: None
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