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

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Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.

Those who are used to a cage
will weep for a cage.

by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the read more

If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

by George Washington Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.

For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won.

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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.

by Frank Desprez Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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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.]

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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.

by Anonymous Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires

by Bertrand Russell Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

by Voltaire Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

by James Russell Lowell Found in: Freedom Quotes,
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