I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

This young century will be liberty's century.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

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?

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.