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“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.”

Knows Turns Freedom Poet Claims Dare Painter License Indulgence

Author:Horace

“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”

Men Giving Wells Ends Done Might Certain Freedom Known Struggle He Man Giving Up Claims Aim Currents Committed Chosen Customs Jumping Usage Yoke Niagara Jumping In

Author:Anna Brackett

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

Thinking World Made Reason Use Age Women Freedom Depends Claims Equality Gender Command Womens Rights Superiority

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.”

Freedom Interesting Liberty Rights Citizens Exercise Claims Deny Libertarian Libertarianism Weakening Constitutional Rights

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.”

Freedom Liberty Claims Tyrants

Book:Poems

Source: Poems