"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty.

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

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

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and read more

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its
friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has
once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective
helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or read more

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.