The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is read more

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of read more

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,

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also read more

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.

I want free life, and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
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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.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more

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.