liberty

Liberty is always unfinished business.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

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

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Whoever wishes to be free, shall seek the faith of liberty.

Faith is freedom.

Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe as we do. But their ignorance prevents them...we must bear patiently with these people and not use our liberty; since it brings to peril or harm to body or soul...but if we use our liberty unnecessarily, and deliberately cause offense to our neighbor, we drive away the very one who in time would come to our faith. Thus St. Paul circumcised Timothy (Acts 16:3) because simple minded Jews had taken offense; he thought: what harm can it do, since they are offended because of ignorance? But when, in Antioch, they insisted that he out and must circumcise Titus (Gal. 2:3) Paul withstood them all and to spite them refused to have Titus circumcised... He did the same when St. Peter...it happened in this way: when Peter was with the Gentiles he ate pork and sausages with them, but when the Jews came in, he abstained from this food and did not eat as he did before. Then the Gentiles who had become Christians though: Alas! we, too, must be like the Jews, eat no pork, and live according to the law of Moses. But when Paul learned that they were acting to the injury of evangelical freedom, he reproved Peter publicly and read him an apostolic lecture, saying: "If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?" (Gal. 2:14). Thus we, too, should order our lives and use our liberty at the proper time, so that Christian liberty may suffer no injury, and no offense be given to our weak brothers and sisters who are still without the knowledge of this liberty.