Pastoral Resources

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.