Let freedom never perish in your hands.

A direct exhortation, the line urges its addressee to treat liberty as a living trust—something that can be safeguarded or squandered by those who hold power. “In your hands” emphasizes personal and civic responsibility: freedom does not merely exist as an abstract ideal but depends on concrete choices, courage, and restraint. The phrasing also implies continuity across generations: one’s duty is not only to enjoy liberty but to pass it on intact. Read in a broadly civic-republican sense, the quote warns that negligence, corruption, or tyranny can cause freedom to “perish,” and that preventing that outcome requires vigilant stewardship.