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

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

    “For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience?”
    —Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 10:29.

    Paul. His belief is that, out of charity, one should not offend the conscience of another.

    “I was thinking of a son.
    The womb is not a clock
    nor a bell tolling,
    but in the eleventh month of its life
    I feel the November
    of the body as well as of the calendar.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Whatever we inherit from the fortunate
    We have taken from the defeated
    What they had to leave us—a symbol:
    A symbol perfected in death.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)