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?

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is read more

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

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.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest read more

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
- Lord read more

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),