Will Rogers, William Cowper, William Ellery Channing

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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

-- Will Rogers

(1879-1935) American humorist

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"'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower

 

Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;

 

And we are weeds without it."

-- William Cowper

(1731-1800) English poet, hymnodist

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"Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without

this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of

freedom."

-- William Ellery Channing

(1780-1842)

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