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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
GOETHE-Faust. Act V. Sc. 6.

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Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein. Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. GOETHE-Iphigenia auf Tauris. I. 2. 54.

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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.

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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)

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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.

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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.

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Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. Republican Rallying Cry, 1856.

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