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Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not

Who would be free themselves must strike the Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs? blow? MOORE—Fudge Family. 8.

BYRON—Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 76. (See also REGN RE)

16 Have the French for friends, but not for neigh

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,

Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. bors.

BYRON—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 98. EMPEROR NICEPHORUS (803) while treating with ambassadors of CHARLEMAGNE.

For Freedom's battle once begun, On connoit en France 685 manières differentes

Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, d'accommoder les @ufs.

Though baffled oft is ever won. One knows in France 685 different ways of

BYRON–Giaour. L. 123. preparing eggs. DE LA REYNIÈRE.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!

Jehovah hath triumphed—his people are free. Ye sons of France, awake to glory!

BYRON—Sacred Songs. Sound the loud Timbrel. Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Hope for a season bade the world farewell, Behold their tears and hear their cries!

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! ROUGET DE LISLE The Marseilles Hymn. (1792)

O'er Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow. Une natione de singes à larynx de parroquets.

CAMPBELL-Pleasures of Hope. L. 381. A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots.

(See also COLERIDGE) SIÉYES—Note to Mirabeau. (Of France.)

England may as well dam up the waters of

the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of FRAUD

Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat land than where she treads the sequestered glens one's self.

of Scotland, or couches herself among the magBAILEY-Festus. Sc. Anywhere.

nificent mountains of Switzerland.

LYDIA MARIA CHILD—Supposititious Speech of Perplexed and troubled at his bad success

James Otis. The Rebels. Ch. IV.
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope. Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos
MILTON—Paradise Regained. Bk. IV. L. 1. est.
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To freemen, threats are impotent.
So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud CICERO-Epistles. XI. 3.
Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree
Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

O what a loud and fearful shriek was there! MILTON—Paradise Lost. Bk. LX. L. 643.

Some cursed fraud Ah me! they view'd beneath an hireling's sword Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,

Fallen Kosciusco. And me with thee hath ruined.

COLERIDGE-Sonnet MILTON—Paradise Lost. Bk. LX. L. 904.

(See also CAMPBELL)

23 His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 7. L.

That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. 78.

COWPER—Table Talk. L. 260.
FREEDOM
Freedom all solace to man gives:

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,

And all are slaves besides.
He lives at ease that freely lives.

COWPER-Task. Bk. V. L. 733.
JOHN BARBOUR-The Bruce. Bk. I. 225.
Whose service is perfect freedom.

I want free life, and I want fresh air;
Book of Common Prayer. Collect for Peace.

And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,

The crack of the whip like shots in battle, for righteous monarchs,

The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free.

spreads; HENRY BROOKE- Earl of Essex. Act I. The green beneath and the blue above, (See also JOHNSON under Ox for parody of same)

And dash, and danger, and life and love.

F. DESPREZ—Lasca. Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,

Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place I am as free as nature first made man,
A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Ere the base laws of servitude began,

Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
BRYANT—The Ages. XXXIII.

DRYDEN—Conquest of Granada. Act I. Sc. 1.

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All we have of freedom-all we use or know Choose him to be your king;

This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. He shall cut pathways east and west,

KIPLING-The Old Issue.
And fend you with his wing.
EMERSON—Boston Hymn.

12 . . That this nation, under God shall

have a new birth of freedom. We grant no dukedoms to the few,

ABRAHAM LINCOLN-Gettysburg Address. We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew,

I intend no modification of my oft expressed On Monday in the mall.

wish that all men everywhere could be free. For what avail the plough or sail,

ABRAHAM LINCOLN—Letter to Horace Greeley. Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Aug. 22, 1862. See RAYMOND's History of EMERSON—Boston. St. 5.

Lincoln's Administration. 3

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they
I gave my life for freedom-This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

Who give her aspirations wings,

And to the wiser law of music sway W. N. EWER—Five Souls.

Her wild imaginings.

LOWELL-Memorial Verses. To the Memory Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.

of Hood. St. 4. GODWIN—Enquirer. II. XII. 402.

Quicquid multis peccatur, inultum est. Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;

All go free when multitudes offend.

LUCAN-Pharsalia. V. 260. The last result of wisdom stamps it true;

16 He only earns his freedom and existence

Libertas ultima mundi
Who daily conquers them anew.
GOETHE-Faust. Act V. Sc. 6.

Quo steterit ferienda loco.

The remaining liberty of the world was to

be destroyed in the place where it stood. Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein.

LUCAN-Pharsalia. VII. 580. Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. GOETHE-Iphigenia auf Tauris. I. 2. 54. Non bene, crede mihi, servo servitur amico;

Sit liber, dominus qui volet esse meus. Ay, call it holy ground,

Service cannot be expected from a friend in

a The soil where first they trod,

service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be They have left unstained, what there they

my master. found,

MARTIAL—Epigrams. II. 32. 7.
Freedom to worship God.
FELICIA D. HEMANS-Landing of the Pilgrim

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 99. Fathers. 8

They can only set free men free Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens, sibi qui im

And there is no need of that: periosus;

Free men set themselves free. Quem neque pauperies, neque mors, neque vin- JAMES OPPENHEIM—The Slave. cula terrent

(See also BROOKE) Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis; et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus.

An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam Who then is free? the wise man who is lord Cui licet, ut voluit? over himself;

Is any man free except the one who can Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains

pass his life as he pleases?
alarm; strong to withstand his passions

PERSIUS-Satires. V. 83.
and despise honors, and who is completely
finished and rounded off in himself.

Oh! let me live my own, and die so too!
HORACE-Satires. Bk. II. VII. 83.

(To live and die is all I have to do:) (See also HENLEY under Soul)

Maintain a poet's dignity and ease,

And see what friends, and read what books I In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across please.

POPE—Prologue to Satires. L. 261. With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will As he died to make men holy, let us die to make

threats of a "halter” intimidate. For, under men free,

God, we are determined that wheresoever, whenWhile God is marching on.

soever, or howsoever we shall be called to make JULIA WARD HOWE-Battle Hymn of the

our exit, we will die free men. Republic.

JOSIAH QUINCY_Observations on the Boston

Port Bill, 1774. One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. IBSEN–Enemy of the People.

Republican Rallying Cry, 1856.

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FRIENDS (See also FRIENDSHIP)
The body's delicate.
King Lear. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 11.

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BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER—The Faithful The last link is broken

Friends. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 50.
That bound me to thee,
And the words thou hast spoken

It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn Have render'd me free.

for him. FANNY STEERS—Song.

Beowulf. VII. Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ velis, Friend, of my infinite dreams et quæ sentias dicere licet.

Little enough endures; Such being the happiness of the times, that Little howe'er it seems, you may think as you wish, and speak as you It is yours, all yours. think.

ARTHUR BENSON—The Gift. TACITUS-Annales. I. 1.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my Of old sat Freedom on the heights

soul, my God. The thunders breaking at her feet:

SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. Above her shook the starry lights;

II. Sec. V.
She heard the torrents meet.
TENNYSON-Of old sat Freedom.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or

participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by Red of the Dawn

making them mine own, I may more easily disIs it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when cuss them; for in mine own reason, and within shall we lay

myself, I can command that which I cannot enThe ghost of the Brute that is walking and ham- treat without myself, and within the circle of mering us yet and be free?

another. TENNYSON—The Dawn.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE–Religio Medici. Pt.

II. Sec. V. The nations lift their right hands up and swear

Let my hand, Their oath of freedom.

This hand, lie in your own my own true friend; WHITTIER–Garibaldi.

Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!

ROBERT BROWNING—Paracelsus. Sc. 5. Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

There is no man so friendless but what he can WOODROW WILSON. At the Workingman's find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeDinner, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1912.

able truths.

BULWER-LYTTON—What Will He Do With It? Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the Bk. II. Ch. XIV. principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, We twa hae run about the braes, and to set up among the really free and self And pu'd the gowans fine. governed peoples of the world such a concert of BURNS—Auld Lang Syne. purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the obs vance of those principles.

His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, WOODROW WILSON-Address to Congress. Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither

(War with Germany being declared.) April They had been fou for weeks thegither! 2, 1917.

BURNS—Tam o' Shanter.

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