Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 John Greenleaf Whittier quotesJohn Greenleaf Whittier QuotesJohn Greenleaf Whittier For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!~ John Greenleaf Whittier Freedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!~ John Greenleaf Whittier The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs." ~ John Greenleaf Whittier The nations lift their right hands up and swear Their oath of freedom.~ John Greenleaf Whittier Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print