You May Also Like / View all maxioms
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in read more
We grant no dukedoms to the few,
We hold like rights and shall;
Equal on Sunday in the pew,
On Monday in the mall.
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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),
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
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.
I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When read more
I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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.
Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!
. . . read more
Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!
. . . .
O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow.