Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.—C.A. Bartol.
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 freemen.—Josiah Quincy.
Who then is free?—the wise, who well maintains
An empire o'er himself; whom neither chains,
Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire;
Who boldly answers to his warm desire;
Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise;
Firm in himself, who on himself relies;
Polish'd and round, who runs his proper course,
And breaks misfortune with superior force.
—Horace.
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.—Channing.
He was the freeman whom the truth made free;
Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke;
Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul,
In spite of fools consulted seriously.
—Pollock.
Friendship.—Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.—Cicero.
The man that hails you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumping on your back
His sense of your great merit,
Is such a friend, that one had need
Be very much his friend indeed
To pardon or to bear it.
—Cowper.
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.—Plautus.
Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.—Proverbs 27:10.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.—Vaughan.