| Harriet Devine - Biography & Autobiography - 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...she knows it; 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,... | |
| James R. Gaines - France - 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 - Great Britain - 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... | |
| 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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