We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints good Lord deliver us.

How can you measure the value of the good news of Christ? It is spoken of in the Bible as light in the darkness, freedom from slavery and life from death. Look at how much the Early Church valued the message. They received it with great joy and overflowing gratitude.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongueThat Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals holdWhich Milton held.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spoke: the faith and morals hold which Milton held.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

How does the meadow-flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.