Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

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

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?