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On the question of liberty, as a principle, we are not what we have been.
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The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long in freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,--the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire.