And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
--RICHARD LOVELACE.

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves,
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves.
--ROBERT TREAT PAINE.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident
proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use
their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who
resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.--MACAULAY.

To have freedom is only to have that which is absolutely necessary to
enable us to be what we ought to be, and to possess what we ought to
possess.--RAHEL.

When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pure, celestial white
With streakings of the morning light.
--JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.

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