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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.
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?
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born
carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born
carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.
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.
