FREEDOM, POLITICAL

Political slavery is an intolerable evil. To live, to think, to act, to speak, at the permission of another! Better have no life at all! To depend for my existence upon a despot’s will is death itself. Craven spirits may wear the dog-collar which their master puts upon them, and fawn at his feet for the bones of his table, but men who are worthy of the name, had rather feed the vultures on the battlefield. 565.217 If for a few years we could feel the yoke of despotism we should better appreciate the joys of freedom. 1243.385