Freemen Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

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
All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To freemen, threats are impotent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree — Thomas Paine
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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

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