Quote#Freedom
"Freedom!" their battle-cry,—
Quote byGeorge Henry Boker · 1823–1890
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Black Regiment", stanza 5, in Poems of the War (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 101..
English (original)
"Freedom!" their battle-cry,— "Freedom! or leave to die!"
— George Henry Boker
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