Freemen Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
— James Madison
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All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To freemen, threats are impotent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and…
— George Washington
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I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any…
— George Washington
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It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered…
— John L. DeWitt
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That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in…
— Plato
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Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is to the United States that all freemen look for the light and the hope of the world. Unless we dedicate ourselves completely to…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in…
— G. Edward Griffin
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For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
— Thomas Paine
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All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit,…
— Aristotle
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Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our…
— Don Young
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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals…
— Thomas Bulfinch
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Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over…
— Fanny Kemble
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have…
— Lysander Spooner
Who Wrote These Freemen Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Freemen Quotes as follows: