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a flame everyone claims to carry yet keeps trying to ration to others.
means the state of being free to act, think, or speak as one chooses, without undue restriction from authority or circumstance.
from From Latin libertas, the condition of being a liber — a free person, as opposed to a slave. It traveled into English through Old French liberte. That same liber root branches out into a small family of freedom-words: liberal, liberate, and even deliver (to set loose). The Romans personified Libertas as a goddess crowned with a soft cap, the pileus, which freed slaves wore — a visual echo you can still spot in the liberty caps of later revolutions.
- statue weight
- Lady Liberty wears 31 tons of copper skin
- green glow
- oxidation, not design, turned her that color
- latin root
- libertas was a Roman goddess with a temple
- bell crack
- the Liberty Bell broke on first test ring
- motto math
- appears on every U.S. coin you own
statue of liberty — 151-foot copper statue in new york harbor, dedicated 1886, gifted by france
liberty bell — 2,080-pound bell in philadelphia, cast 1752, cracked since 1835