Liberty is fundamentally an ideal; and that idealbeautiful, inspiring, compelling, as a loved banner in the windwas kept steadily before men's minds by a multitude of books and pamphlets as far apart as Burns's Poems and Thomas Paine's Rights of Man,all read eagerly by the common people, all proclaiming the dignity of common life, and all uttering the same passionate cry against every form of class or caste oppression.

To believe that union is as much a human necessity as liberty is a divine gift.

Our liberty is neither Greek nor Roman; but essentially English.

" "I am not certain you will think there is any worst about it, Wilhelmina, as Bob's liberty is the object.

Liberty is the consequence of well regulated lawswithout these, Freedom can exist only in name, and the law which favors the escape of the opulent and aristocratic from the penalties of retribution, but consigns the poor and friendless to the chain-gang or the gallows, is in fact the very essence of slavery!!"

If the departure of the "captains and the kings" was at hand, if the new forces of democracy had routed them, if liberty for all men was now an ethic need of civilization, so political recognition was necessary for women.

Liberty was the child of reason and order.

The liberty of the press is another ticklish subject to handle like a hedgehogall points; but we may be allowed to quote, as one of the most harmless specimens of the liberty of the pressthe production of THE MIRROR, as we always acknowledge the liberty by reference to the sources whence our borrowed wealth is taken.

Oh heauy deed: It had bin so with vs had we beene there: His Liberty is full of threats to all, To you your selfe, to vs, to euery one.

Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things.

Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past,as it is to some extent a fiction of the present,the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology.

Liberty can never be a gratuity, it must always be an achievement.

Decency is a proper circumstance; but liberty is the essence of senatorial disquisitions: liberty is the parent of truth; but truth and decency are sometimes at variance: all men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve; and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

The liberty of the pulpit was our great ground of defence; but we argued also on the provocation of the previous attack, and on the instant retaliation.

Our mother's liberty is some content.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, are dogmas of peace and harmony.

The Liberty was more directly and literally our joint production than anything else which bears my name, for there was not a sentence of it that was not several times gone through by us together, turned over in many ways, and carefully weeded of any faults, either in thought or expression, that we detected in it.

But liberty was too large a destiny for a mind of that order; the rod of empire does not fit such hand

If every man were wise and virtuous, capable to discern the best use of time, and resolute to practise it, it might be granted, I think, without hesitation, that total liberty would be a blessing; and that it would be desirable to be left at large to the exercise of religious and social duties, without the interruption of importunate avocations.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action, and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.” (2) If the received opinion which it is sought to protect against the intrusion of error is true, the suppression of discussion is still contrary to general utility.

What man in a civilized age has ever heard of liberty being the unrestrained license of the people to do as they please without any restraint of law or of authority?

With me the liberty of India has become a passion.

It will become us, on this occasion, to act with equal vigour, and convince our countrymen, that we proceed upon the same principles, and that the liberties of the people are our chief care.

Now no abstract or independent principle is discoverable, why liberty of speech should be a privileged form of liberty of action, or why society should lay down its arms of defence and fold its hands, when it is persuaded that harm is threatened to it through the speech of any of its members.

Will may Resist Grace, and Its Liberty is the Foundation of Merit and Demerit.