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The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage. - Elizabeth I Freedom all winged expands, Nor perches in a narrow place; Her broad van seeks unplanted lands; She loves a poor and virtuous race. Clinging to a colder zone Whose dark sky sheds the snow-flake down, The snow-flake is her banner's star, Her stripes the boreal streamers are. Long she loved the Northman well; Now the iron age is done, She will not refuse to dwell With the offspring of the Sun. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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, Boston (st. 5) 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, Boston Hymn He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. - Quintus Ennius That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast. - Quintus Ennius Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. - Epictetus A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. - Epicurus Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency. - Epicurus Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred. - Edward Everett The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,--by the laws of civilized nations,--he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source. - Edward Everett I gave my life for freedom--This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. - William Norman Ewer, Five Souls It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass. - Emile Faguet, said in response to Rousseau, i.e., man being born free, but everywhere in chains Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman O freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name! - Daniel George (pseudonym of Daniel George Bunting), The Perpetual Pessimist A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince. - Edward Gibbon Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom. - William Godwin, Enquirer (II, XII, 402) I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The moment men obtain perfect freedom, that moment they erect a stage for the manifestation of their faults. The strong characters begin to go wrong by excess of energy; the weak by remissness of action. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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, Faust (act V, sc. 6) Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. [Ger., Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Taurus (I, 2, 54) Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. - Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke The greatest glory of a free-born people, Is to transmit that freedom to their children. - William Havard All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. - Heinrich Heine Displaying page 3 of 8 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8
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