You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.