Charles Dickens Quotes About Liberty

• I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

  Charles Dickens

  Freedom, Butterfly, Liberty

  Bleak House ch. 6 (1853)

• Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

  Charles Dickens

  Liberty, Lasts, Fraternity

  Charles Dickens (1868). “A Tale of Two Cities”, p.320

• I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

  Charles Dickens

  War, Believe, Blow

  Charles Dickens (1974). “The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 3. 1842-1843”, OUP Oxford

• So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Party, Struggle

  Charles Dickens (1862). “All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal”, p.330

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