But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.