My angel,—his name is Freedom,—
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.
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?
Emerson—Boston. St. 5.
I gave my life for freedom—This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
W. N. Ewer—Five Souls.
Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.
Godwin—Enquirer. II. XII. 402.
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
He only earns his freedom and existence
Who daily conquers them anew.
Goethe—Faust. Act V. Sc. 6.
Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein.
Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.
Goethe—Iphigenia auf Tauris. I. 2. 54.
Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod,
They have left unstained, what there they
found,—
Freedom to worship God.
Felicia D. Hemans—Landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers.
Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui imperiosus;
Quem neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vincula terrent
Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores
Fortis; et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus.
Who then is free? the wise man who is lord
over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains
alarm; strong to withstand his passions
and despise honors, and who is completely
finished and rounded off in himself.
Horace—Satires. Bk. II. VII. 83.
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With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you
and me;
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make
men free,
While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe—Battle Hymn of the
One should never put on one's best trousers
to go out to fight for freedom.
Ibsen—Enemy of the People.
All we have of freedom—all we use or know—
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Kipling—The Old Issue.
. . That this nation, under God shall
have a new birth of freedom.
Abraham Lincoln—Gettysburg Address.
I intend no modification of my oft-expressed
wish that all men everywhere could be free.
Abraham Lincoln—Letter to Horace Greeley.
Aug. 22, 1862. See Raymond's History of
Lincoln's Administration.
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
Who give her aspirations wings,
And to the wiser law of music sway
Her wild imaginings.
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of Hood. St. 4.
Quicquid multis peccatur, inultum est.
All go free when multitudes offend.
Lucan—Pharsalia. V. 260.
Libertas ultima mundi
Quo steterit ferienda loco.
The remaining liberty of the world was to
be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Lucan—Pharsalia. VII. 580.
Non bene, crede mini, servo servitur amico;
Sit liber, dominus qui volet esse meus.
Service cannot be expected from a friend in
service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be
my master.
Martial— Epigrams. II. 32. 7.
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They can only set free men free . . .
And there is no need of that:
Free men set themselves free.
James Oppenheim—The Slave.
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Cui licet, ut vomit?
Is any man free except the one who can
pass his life as he pleases?
Persius—Satires. V. 83.
Oh! let me live my own, and die so too!
(To live and die is all I have to do:)
Maintain a poet's dignity and ease,
And see what friends, and read what books I
please.
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Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will
threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make
our exit, we will die free men.
Josiah Quincy—Observations on the Boston
Port Bill, 177 '4.
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
Republican Rallying Cry, 1856.
