Liberty Bell/becoming A Symbol 1847%e2%80%931865

Famous quotes containing the words liberty, bell and/or symbol:

    “An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel’s just got his wings.”
    —Frances Goodrich (1891–1984)

    “A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1934)