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“We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.”

Source: The microcosm, and other poems

“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

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.”

People Ifs Might Order Enjoy Freedom Liberty Exercise Constant Active Betray Representatives Reserves Resorts Surveillance

Author:Benjamin Constant

“It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.”

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.”

Might Freedom Accepting Cry Please Members Concern Presses Freedom Of The Press

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”

World Made Whole Might Action Law Politics Freedom Principles Whole World Total War

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Life Ends Might Faith Freedom Feet Duty Slave Dare Have Faith Dungeons Might Makes Right

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.”

Life Humor Might Funny Voice Freedom Conscience Inner Voice

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

Ends Might Today Faces Literature Fear Freedom Loneliness Tomorrow Battle Lonely Engaged Engagement So Lonely

Book:In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Source: In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.”

Want Body Might Faces Freedom Gone Positive Hair Your Body Your Face

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.”

World Might Goal Freedom Willing Victory Gods Will Around The World Expenses Hemisphere Vindication Cuban Missile Crisis

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.”

Might Next Freedom Liberty Citizens One Day Statues Reproach Indelible Hemlock

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution