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

    “Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

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

    “Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “The twelfth day of Christmas,
    My true love sent to me
    Twelve lords a-leaping.”
    —Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 89–91)