Lapham’s Quarterly

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—­democracy to many.

Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.

That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.