James Madison Bell Quotes

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There is no right a freeman has
So purely sacred as his choice.

James Madison Bell

Deep in the unrecorded past,
There was an age of darkness vast,
And boundless as the realms of space.
An age that held, in its embrace
And in an embryotic state,
All worlds and systems, small and great.

James Madison Bell

The wrong cannot forever last—
The right is mightier than the chain.

James Madison Bell

For O, there is in earth or Heaven
No sweeter note or purer key
To mortals known, or angels given,
Than peerless, chainless LIBERTY!

James Madison Bell

Shall they, because their skins are dark,
Forever wear the galling chain?
Has hope for them no cheering spark
That wrong will one day cease to reign?

James Madison Bell

No longer 'neath the weight of years—
No longer merged in hopeless fears—
Is now that good time, long delayed,
When right, not might, shall all pervade.
Drive hence despair—no longer doubt,
Since friends within and foes without
Their might and main conjointly blend
To reach the same great, glorious end—
The sweeping from this favored land
The last foul chain and slavish brand.

James Madison Bell