My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Liberty's in every blow!
Let us do or die.
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.
When Liberty from Greece withdrew,
And o'er the Adriatic flew, To where the Tiber pours his urn, She struck the rude Tarpeian rock; Sparks were kindled by the shock— Again thy fires began to burn. Henry F. Cary—Power of Eloquence. </poem>
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare,
And shot my being through earth, sea, and air,
Possessing all things with intensest love,
O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Coleridge—France. An Ode. V.
Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.
// Corinthians. III. 17.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower
Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;
And we are weeds without it.
| author = Cowper
| work = The Task. Bk. V. L. 446.
Then liberty, like day,
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
| author = Cowper
| work = The Task. Bk. V. L. 882.
The condition upon which God hath given
liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran—Speech. July 10,
.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
John Philpot Curran—Speech. Dublin. (1808)
Rendre l'homme infame, et le laisser libre, est
une absurdity qui peuple nos forfits d'assassins.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free,
is an absurdity that peoples our forests with
assassins.
Diderot.
The love of liberty with life is given,
And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
Dryden—PalamonandArcite. Bk. II. L. 291.
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the
candle of industry and economy.
Benj. Franklin. In Correspondence.
Those who would give up essential liberty to
purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.
Benj. Franklin—Motto to Historical Review
of Pennsylvania.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benj. Franklin.
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry—Speech. March, 1775.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at
the same time.
Thomas Jefferson—Summary View of the
Bights of British America.
As so often before, liberty has been wounded
in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild
and freakish hands of fanatics has once more,
as frequently in the past, proved the effective
helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of
tyranny.
Otto Kahn—Speech at University of Wisconsin. Jan. 14, 1918.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands
self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the
practical and attainable, and of the fact that
there are laws of nature which are beyond our
power to change.
Otto Kahn—Speech at University of Wisconsin. Jan. 14, 1918.
libertas, inquit, populi quern regna coercent,
Libertate perit.
The liberty of the people, he says, whom
power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty.
Lucanus—Pharsalia. Bk. III. 146.
License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
| author = Milton
| work = On the Detraction which followed upon
my Writing Certain Treatises.
Justly thou abhorr'st
That son, who on the quiet state of men
Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue
Rational liberty; yet know withal,
Since thy original lapse, true liberty
Is lost.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. XII. L. 79.
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Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere,
A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear,
'Tis the last libation Liberty draws
From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her
cause!
Moore—Lalla Rookh. Paradise and the Peri.
St. 11.
