There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism.
The only security men can have for their political liberty consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime then I attack them one and all because they enslave the minds of men.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
When men yield up the privilege of thinking the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
The hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die liberty will never perish.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Having federal officials whether judges bureaucrats or congressmen impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart liberty is to the soul of man.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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.
In the early centuries of Islam the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including of course legal despotism?
From you we have learned what we at least value to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning to religious liberty and to individual and National freedom.
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
A University should be a place of light of liberty and of learning.
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity value and worth.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.