• Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. independence
2. mistaking
3. preamble
4. freedom
5. statute
6. right

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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