• The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist 1819-1892
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. constraint
2. contrary
3. release
4. potent

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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. by : Walt Whitman

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