 | Harriet Devine - 2003 - 442 pages
...sentiment expressed at this moment by the brave but since unfortunate Fayette will never be forgotten: 'For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that...and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.' The court still persisting in the system of tyranny, the people, threatened with assassination, were... | |
 | James R. Gaines - 2007 - 580 pages
...speech he made to the National Assembly to introduce his Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen: "For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it," Lafayette had said, "and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it." If Burke was appalled by... | |
 | Moisei Ostrogorski - 1908 - 698 pages
...suppressing some assoaml which take a new force when solemnly recognized by all ; for a nation to We liberty it is sufficient that she knows it, and to be free it is sufficient that she wills it." 'In the Parliament thus reformed , declared the "London Corresponding Society," "there would be no... | |
 | Miss Angel - 1875 - 796 pages
...the words of Lafayette, a name endeared by its peerless bearer to every lover of the human race, ' For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it ; to be free it is sufficient that she wills it.' " A few days after this Address appeared, Shelley... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1829 - 616 pages
...France, the following memorable words occur in his farewell speech before the Congress : — "aFor a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it : for a nation to be free,' it is sufficient that she wills it." A few years afterwards, when the flame... | |
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Call to mind the sentiments which Nature has engraved in the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognized by all: — For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient... 
