Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 641 |
AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (180382) |
QUOTATION: | For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? |
ATTRIBUTION: | These words were also inscribed on a plaque in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. |
SUBJECTS: | Freedom |