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- Freedom
- n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint’s infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
- Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell.
- She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell.
- And when the sovereign people cast The votes they cannot spell, Upon the pestilential blast Her clamors swell.
- For all to whom the power’s given To sway or to compel, Among themselves apportion Heaven And give her Hell.
- Blary O’Gary
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