Freedom: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
This is the porcelain clay of human kind.— DRYDEN — Don Sebastian. Act I. Sc. 1.
Unthought-of Frailties cheat us in the Wise.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. To Temple. L. 69.
Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we; For, such as we are made of, such we be.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 32.
Frailty, thy name is woman!— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 146.
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.— Shakespeare — Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 96.
Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?— BRYANT — The Ages. XXXIII.
For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.— BYRON — The Giaour. L. 123.
Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 76.
The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone I dream'd that Greece might still be free. For standing on the Persians' grave I could not deem myself a slave.— BYRON — The Isles of Greece.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 98.
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.— CAMPBELL — Pleasures of Hope. L. 381.
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.— LYDIA MARIA CHILD — Supposititious
Speech of James Otis. The Rebels. Ch. IV. 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.— ABRAHAM COLES — The Microcosm,
and Other Poems. National Lyrics, P. 213. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. V. L. 733.
No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.— COWPER — Table Talk. L. 260.
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.— JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE — The Croakers. The American Flag. St. 1.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.— DRYDEN — Conquest of Granada. Act. I. Sc. 1.
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.— EMERSON — Boston Hymn.
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.
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm per sistence; 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.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.— MRS. HEMANS — Landing of the Pilgrino
Fathers. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, 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 — Later Lyrics.
Battle Hymn of the Republic. Know ye why the Cypress tree as freedom's tree is known? Know ye why the Lily fair as freedom's flower is shown? Hundred arms the Cypress has, yet never plunder seeks ; With ten well-developed tongues, the Lily never speaks! OMAR KHAYYAM. Trans. by Frederich Bodenstedt. 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.— LOWELL — Memorial Verses. To the Memory of Hood. St. 4. Bk. III.
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. L. 99.
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.— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 261.
Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor For , will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, be under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall men. called to make our exit, we will die free the— JOSIAH QUINCY — Observations on
C. Boston Port Bill, 1774. Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. Republican Rallying Cry, 1856. Freedom is only in the land of Dreams :— SCHILLER — Commencement of the New
Century. Last line. When the mind's free, The body's delicate.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 11.
The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free.— FANNY STEERS — Song.
The nations lift their right hands up and swear Their oath of freedom.— WHITTIER — Garibaldi.
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom, bold.— WORDSWORTH — A Poet! He hath put
his Heart to School. We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.— WORDSWORTH — Sonnets to National Independence and Liberty. Pt. XVI.
Præcipites regum casus Fortuna rotat. Fortune turns on her wheel the fate of kings.— SENECA — Agamemnon. LXXI.
Quidquid in altum, fortuna tulit, ruitura levat. Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.— SENECA — Agamemnon. C.
Quid non dedit fortuna non eripit. Fortune cannot take away what she did not give.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium. LIX.
Fors æqua merentes Respicit. A just fortune awaits the deserving.— STATIUS — Thebais. I. 661.
Fortuna nimium quem favet, stultum facit. When fortune favors a man too much, she makes him a fool.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur. Fortune is like glass; when she shines, she is broken.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret. That is a very wretched fortune which has no enemy.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Non equidem invideo; miror magis. Indeed, I do not envy your fortune; I rather am surprised at it.— VIRGIL — Eclogæ. I. 11.
Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.. To freemen, threats are impotent.— CICERO — Epistolæ. XI. 3.
Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credet Servitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub rege pio. That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king.— CLAUDIANUS — De Laudibus Stilichonis.
III. 113. Ea libertas est quæ pectus purum et firmum gestitat. That is true liberty which bears a pure and firm breast.— ENNIUS
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.
Quicquid multis peccatur, inultum est. All go free when multitudes offend.— LUCAN — Pharsalia. V. 260.
Non bene, crede mihi, 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 — Epigrammata. II. 32. 7.
An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam Cui licet, ut voluit? Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?— PERSIUS — Satiræ. V. 83.
Libertatem naturâ etiam mutis animalibus datam. Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.— TACITUS — Annales. IV. 17.
Rarâ temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet. Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.— TACITUS — Annales. I. 1.
convie. Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei Und würd' er in Ketten geboren. Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.— SCHILLER — Die Worte des Glaubens. St. 2.
Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein. Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.— GOETHE — Iphigenia auf Tauris. I.
2. 54. Freiheit ist nur in dem Reich der Träume Und das Schöne blüht nur im Gesang. Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the beautiful only blooms in song.— SCHILLER — The Beginning of the New Century. St. 9.
O, nur eine freie Seele wird nicht alt. Oh, only a free soul will never grow old!— JEAN PAUL RICHTER — Titan. Zykel