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1

Give me again my hollow tree
A crust of bread, and liberty!

Pope—Imitations of Horace. Bk. II. Satire VI. L. 220.

2

O liberie! que de crimes on commct dans ton nom!

O liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

Madame Roland—Memoirs. Appendix. The actual expression used is said to have been "O liberty, commc on t'a joude!"—"O Liberty, how thou hast been played with!" Spoken as she stood before a statue of Liberty.

3

That treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

Ruskins—Seven Lamps of Architecture. Ch. VIII. Sect. XXI.

4

I must have liberty

Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 47.

5

Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe;

There's nothing, situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. Comedy of Errors. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 15. </poem>

So every boDdman in his own hand bears
The power to cancel his captivity.
Julius Caesar. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 101.

6

Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty!
Smollett—Ode to Independence. L. 5.

7

Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days.
Charles Sprague—Centennial Ode. St. 22.

8

Libertatem natura etiam mutis animalibus
datam.
Liberty is given by nature even to mute
animals.

Tacitus—Annates. IV. 17.

9

Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of
licence, which fools call liberty.

Tacitus—Dialogus de Oratoribus. 46.

10

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Daniel Webster—Address. Charlestown, Mass. June 17, 1825. Bunker Hill Monument.

12

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light

of Peace, like

"another morn,
Risen on mid-noon;"
and the sky on which you closed your eye was
cloudless.

Daniel Webster—Speeches. The Bunker Hill Monument. (1825)

13

God grants liberty only to those who love it,
and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webster—Speech. June 3, 1834.

14

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster—Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner. May 10, 1847.

15

I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open, on golden hinges, to lovers of Union as well as of Liberty.

Daniel Webster—Letter. April, 1851. When refused the use of the Hall after his speech on the Corirpromise Measures. (March 7, 1850) The Aldermen reversed their decision. Mr. Webster began his speech: "This is Faneuil Hall—Open!"

LIBRARIES

(See also Books)

The medicine chest of the soul.

 Inscription on a Library. From the Greek.

Nutrimentum spiritus.

Food for the soul.

 Inscription on Berlin Royal Library.

(See also Cicero under Learning, Mind)

15

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Amos Bronson Alcott—Table Talk. Bk. I. Learning-Books.

19

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Bacon—Libraries.

20

 That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues.

Beaumont and Fletcher—The Elder Brother. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 177.

21

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It
is the land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher—Star Papers. Oxford. Bodleian Library.

22

All round the room my silent servants wait,
My friends in every season, bright and dim.
Barry Cornwall—My Books.

23

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Dawson—Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library.

24

It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.

Fuller—The Holy and Profane States. Of Books. Maxim 1.