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.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.