You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark read more

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place
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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?

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win read more

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

No one can ever defeat the Afghans
(in Rambeau 3).

No one can ever defeat the Afghans
(in Rambeau 3).

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than read more

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an read more

You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.