Henry Brooks Adams, John Dryden, Josiah Gilbert Holland

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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint;

responsibility is restraint; therefore,

the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

-- Henry Brooks Adams

(1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.Brooks.Adams.Quote.83C0

 

 

"I am as free as nature first made man,

Ere the base laws of servitude began,

When wild in woods the noble savage ran."

-- John Dryden

(1631-1700) English Poet

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Dryden.Quote.8B1A

 

 

"The cry of the soul is for freedom.

It longs for liberty, from the date

of its first conscious moments."

-- Josiah Gilbert Holland

(used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Josiah.Holland.Quote.8B31