Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represe...nts, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should req...uire a passport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,... Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; and ...a partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition,... on the contrary, renders men tame and abject, and fits them for slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the sho...p of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »