LIBERTY

Lord Jesus, thou who art the way, the truth, and the life; hear us as we pray for the truth that shall make all free. Teach us that liberty is not only to be loved but also to be lived. Liberty is too precious a thing to be buried in books. It costs too much to be hoarded. Help us see that our liberty is not the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to please to do what is right.

Peter Marshall, Before the U.S. Senate.

Liberty of thought is in itself a good; but it gives an opening to false liberty. 

John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita Sua, 1864.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. 

Thoman Huxley, "Address on University Education," Collected Essays, 1902, III, 236.

No man in this world attains to freedom from any slavery except by entrance into some higher servitude. There is no such thing as an entirely free man conceivable. 

Phillips Brooks (1835- 1893), Perennials.