Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish and one which because of its very catholicity grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like but the right to do what we ought.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

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

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty but also by the abuse of power.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent thoughtful schoolchildren.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.