Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us. Goethe.

Freedom exists only with power. Schiller. 20

Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. Cowper.

Freedom is a new religion—the religion of our time. Heine.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge. C. A. Bartol.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. Ruskin.

Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the 25 beautiful only blooms in song. Schiller.

Freedom is the eternal youth of nations. Gen. Foy.

Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. C. M. Arndt.

Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known. Burke.