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

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

    “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
    —Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

    “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty—his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)