Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Liberty!--Electric word! What is it? Is there anything more in it than a name--a rhetorical flourish? Why, men and women of America, does your hearts blood thrill at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die? Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man?

— Harriet Beecher Stowe. American abolitionist and author (1811-1896)

More Quotes By Harriet Beecher Stowe

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Women are the real architects of society.
When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

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