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I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is read more
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart--
The heart which love of thee alone can bind;
And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd--
To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom,
Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect
everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will
preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that
force, you are inevitably ruined.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that
peoples our forests with assassins.
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that
peoples our forests with assassins.
[Fr., Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est une
absurdite qui peuple nos forets d'assassins.]
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
