servitude quotes

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

-Curran,John Philpot
  Speech, Dublin,10  Jul.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

-Dryden,John
  The Conquest of Granada, pt.1, act1, sc.1.

History may be servitude, History may be freedom.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.3.

The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  The Conduct of Life,'Fate'.

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

-Milton,John
   Abdiel to Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.178^81.

Since then they have pulled our ploughs and borne our loads. But that free servitude still can pierce our hearts. Our life is changed; their coming our beginning.

-Muir, Edwin
  One Foot in Eden,'The Horses'.

En matie'  re de presse, il n'y a donc re¤  ellement pas de milieu entre la servitude et la licence. Pour recueillir les biens inestimables qu'assure la liberte¤   de la presse, il faut Tocqueville savoir se soumettre aux maux ine¤  vitables qu'elle fait na|"tre. As for the press, there is no middle way between servitude and extreme licence. In order to enjoy the invaluable benefits ensured by freedom of the press, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it engenders.

-Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Cle¤  rel de
^40  De la De¤  mocratie en Ame¤  rique (Democracy in America), vol.1, pt.2, ch.3.

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