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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe. - David Sarnoff Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains. [Ger., Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei Und wurd' er in Ketten geboren.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Die Worte des Glaubens (st. 2) Freedom is only in the land of dreams. and the beautiful only blooms in song. [Ger., Freiheit ist nur in dem Reich der Traume Und das Schone bluht nur im Gesang.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Beginning of the New Century No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. [Lat., Nemo liber est, qui corpori servit.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (XCII) When the mind's free, The body's delicate. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at III, iv) What art thou Freedom? Oh, could slaves Answer from their living graves This demand, tyrants would flee Like a dim dream's imagery! Thou art Justice--ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold, As laws are in England: thou Shield'st alike high and low. Thou art Peace--never by thee Would blood and treasure wasted be As tyrants wasted them when all Leagued to quench thy flame in Gaul! Thou art love: the rich have kist Thy feet and like him following Christ Given their substance to be free And through the world have followed thee. - Percy Bysshe Shelley Stranger, new flowers in our vales are seen, With a dazzling eye, and a lovely, green.--They scent the breath of the dewy morn: They feed no worm, and they hide no thorn, But revel and glow in our balmy air; They are flowers which Freedom hath planted there. - Lydia Huntley Sigourney Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. - Robert Southey The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free. - Fanny Steers, Song Man in not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable actions. - de Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle) A hungry man is not a free man. - Adlai E. Stevenson Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. - Adlai E. Stevenson Freedom rings where opinions clash. - Adlai E. Stevenson By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. - Jonathan Swift I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen. - Jonathan Swift Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think. [Lat., Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (I, 1) Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Of old sat Freedom Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free? - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Dawn I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me. - Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau's Journal of 1841 The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. - Thucydides The man who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave. - Alexis de Tocqueville Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. - Unknown A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite. - George Washington I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. - George Washington The man is free who is protected from injury. - Daniel Webster Displaying page 7 of 8 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8
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