Liberty Cap

Chiefly it refers to:

  • liberty cap, a brimless felt cap, such as the Phrygian cap or pileus, emblematic of a slave's manumission in the Ancient World.

The phrase may also refer to:

  • Liberty Cap, a celebrated granite dome in Yosemite National Park
  • Liberty Cap, an unusual hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
  • Liberty Cap, a prominent peak on Mount Rainier
  • The liberty cap (Psilocybe semilanceata), a psychedelic mushroom
  • The Liberty Cap Large Cent

Famous quotes containing the words liberty and/or cap:

    “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “‘I have cap and bells,’ he pondered,
    ‘I will send them to her and die’;
    And when the morning whitened
    He left them where she went by.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)