Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation.
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.