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| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. |
| Freedom |
| A bird in a cage is not half a bird. Beecher. | 1 |
| A poor freedom is better than a rich slavery. | 2 |
| All are not free who mock their chains. German. | 3 |
| Better a bean and freedom, than comfits and slavery. German. | 4 |
| Better be a bird of the wood than a bird in a cage. Italian. | 5 |
| Better be a free bird than a captive king. Danish. | 6 |
| Better free in a foreign land than a serf at home. German. | 7 |
| Better to look from the mountain than from the dungeon. Servian. | 8 |
| Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. Garrick. | 9 |
| For from the moment a freeman takes A tyrant’s gift, his half of manhood’s fled. | 10 |
| Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe’er contented never know. Cowper. | 11 |
| Freedom is above silver and gold. German. | 12 |
| Freedom’s battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won. | 13 |
| He is not free who drags his chain after him. French, Italian. | 14 |
| He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. Cowper. | 15 |
| Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? Byron. | 16 |
| In a free country there is much complaint with little suffering: in a despotism much suffering but little complaint. Giles’ Proverbs. | 17 |
| Injurious is the gift that takes away freedom. Italian. | 18 |
| None is to be deemed free who has not perfect self-command. Pythagoras. | 19 |
| One never knows what freedom means till one has seen those who are not free. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 20 |
| On the first day of his servitude the captive is deprived of one-half of his manly virtue. Homer. | 21 |
| The good man alone is free and all bad men are slaves. Maxim of the Stoics. | 22 |
| The most magnificent palace would appear to him a prison who was confined to it. Turkish Spy. | 23 |
| To speak his thoughts is every freeman’s right. Homer. | 24 |
| We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakspeare writ. Wordsworth. | 25 |
| Who has lost his freedom has nothing else to lose. German. | 26 |
| Who sells his freedom in exchange for gold, Shall make eternal servitude his fate. Homer. | 27 |
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