107 quotes found
“Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.”
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you hav...”
“If you want a definition of what a coward is, its needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.”
“I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.”
“One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.”
“Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.”
“Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?”
“And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!”
“In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint with much grievance.”
“For what avail the plough or sail Or land or life if freedom fail?”
“Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.”
“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.”
“I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.”
“And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
“... That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom.”
“Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent an...”
“We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.”
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”
“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”
