"People demand freedom only when they have no power."
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Freedom
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
More From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- "Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."
- "The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."
- "When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
More In Freedom
- "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- "We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs."― Jimmy Carter
- "No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny."― Hannah Arendt