The Devil's Dictionary: Liberty

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
LIAR
LICKSPITTLE

LIBERTY

-n.

One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

The rising People, hot and out of breath,
Roared around the palace: "Liberty or death!"
"If death will do," the King said, "let me reign;
You'll have, I'm sure, no reason to complain."

- Martha Braymance

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