"Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectiveness—the emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos."

"We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom, bold."

"Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own."

"Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles."

"Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government."

"The nations lift their right hands up and swear Their oath of freedom."

"Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?"

"Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet."

"Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet."

"The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free."

"Nemo liber est, qui corpori servit."

"Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei Und würd' er in Ketten geboren."

"Freiheit ist nur in dem Reich der Träume Und das Schöne blüht nur im Gesang."

"O, nur eine freie Seele wird nicht alt."

"Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont."

"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."

"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."

"An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam Cui licet, ut voluit?"

"They can only set free men free… And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Quicquid multis peccatur, inultum est."

"Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor."

"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden"

"Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings."

"I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free."

"…That this nation, under God shall have a new birth of freedom."

"The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom."

"All we have of freedom—all we use or know— This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom."

"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."

"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."

"Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,— Freedom to worship God."

"Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein."

"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."

"Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom."

"I gave my life for freedom—This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so."

"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?"

"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."

"I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran."

"I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle, The crack of the whip like shots in battle, The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads; The green beneath and the blue above, And dash, and danger, and life and love."

"No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know."

"O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! … Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Fallen Kosciusco."

"Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est."

"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."

"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."

"Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed—his people are free."

"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?"

"…for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free."

"Whose service is perfect freedom."

"Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives."