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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, read more
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than read more
Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in read more
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
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,
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
One need not obey the rules
if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.
One need not obey the rules
if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?