1 My angel, his name is Freedom,— 2 We grant no dukedoms to the few, For what avail the plough or sail, EMERSON-Boston. St. 5. 3 I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so. W. N. EWER-Five Souls. Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom. GODWIN-Enquirer. II. XII. 402. 5 Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; He only earns his freedom and existence 6 Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein. Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. GOETHE-Iphigenia auf Tauris. I. 2. 54. 7 Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found, Freedom to worship God. FELICIA D. HEMANS-Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. 8 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. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself. HORACE Satires. Bk. II. VII. 83. (See also HENLEY under SOUL) 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. 22 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. JOSIAH QUINCY-Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774. 23 Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. Republican Rallying Cry, 1856. |