Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

You won't do your best unless your creative fire is allowed to burn free.

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.