Liberty! — Electric word!
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- «Couldn’t never be nothin’ but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I’d try then.» – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- «It’s true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit… electric shock-y? – Emmett Spain
- Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book – The Liberty Book
- There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive. – Harriet Tubman
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S – Benjamin Franklin
- I’m convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. – Justin Steckbauer
- Jesus not only preached liberty, but has the authority to direct history toward its final victory. – The Liberty Book
- A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. – Daniel Webster
- Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. – Charles Caleb Colton
- Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. – James Madison
- [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
- A slave believes that the law should define the scope of liberty. A free person believes that liberty should define the scope of the law. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- Old: Give me liberty or give me death. – New: Give me liberty or give me debt. – Orrin Woodward
- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin
- There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair. – HG Wells
- France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound. – Victor Hugo
- A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. – Meia Geddes
- God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
- Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can’t have affected you. – John Fowles
- Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric. – Lindsey Kelk
- Well, some men learn by listening, some read, some observe and analyze -” and some of us just have to pee on the electric fence. – Spider Robinson
- Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair. – Janusz KorwinMikke
- I’d say we’re all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought. – Robert Fanney
- In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. – Israel Zangwill