Pastoral Resources

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin!

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.