Pastoral Resources

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.