Pastoral Resources

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the attacks would almost certainly push us as a nation more toward security.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.