Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast? We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defences only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
“War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.”
G. T. W. Patrick, 1889 http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/heraclitus/herpatu.htm
Opening speech on October 12, 1971, when Iran marked the 2500th anniversary of Cyrus' founding of the Persian Empire
Speeches, 1971
Jupiter, Act 2
The Flies (1943)
Source: William Stringfellow: Essential Writings (2013), "Jesus the Criminal" (1969), p. 67
"George III"
Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
Four Georges (1860-1861)
“Desire makes slaves out of kings, and patience makes kings out of slaves.”
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
Song for the Luddites http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Luddites.htm (1816).
“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”
Snæfríður
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part III: Fire in Copenhagen
