GEMS OF THOUGHT
TRUE FREEDOM. The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people’s energy, intellect, and virtues. --William E. Channing. Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honour steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own—Woodrow Wilson. Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. —Milton. The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom, in the rights of conscience.—Mary Baker Eddy. If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it.— Daniel Webster. No! Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, Howe’er contented, never know . . . Religion, virtue, truth —whate’er we call A blessing —freedom is the pledge of all. William Cowper.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1942, Page 4
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