The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.
Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.
The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty,—without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men,—without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery,—without making men everywhere free.
Tell me why the caged bird flutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal—it cannot feed upon husks.
A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
The first freedom is freedom from sin.
There are two freedoms—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
What is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts—the cradle of its infancy, and the Divine source of its claims.
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
O, we all long for the day, the blessed day, when freedom shall at least be co-extensive with Christendom; when a slave political or domestic, shall not tread on an atom upon which the cross of Calvary has cast its shadow; when the baptism of the crucified shall be on every brow, the seal of a heavenly sonship; when the fire of a new Pentecost shall melt asunder, by its divine heat of charity, the bond which wrong or prejudice has fastened; when, to touch any spot over the wide sweep of God's Christianized earth, any spot which the gospel of the Saviour has ever visited, which the name of the Saviour has ever sanctified, shall be, in itself, the spell of a complete deliverance, the magic of a perfect franchise.
To please ourselves with a notion of gospel liberty, while we have not a gospel principle of holiness within to free us from the power of sin, is nothing else but to gild over our bonds and fetters, and to fancy ourselves the inmates of a golden cage. There is a straitness, slavery, and narrowness in sin; sin crowds and crumples up our souls which, if they were freely spread abroad, would be as wide and as broad as the whole universe. No man is truly free, but he that has his will enlarged to the extent of God's own will, by loving whatever God loves, and nothing else.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
We lay it down as a first principle—from which we can no more depart than from the consciousness of existence—that man is free; and therefore stand ready to embrace whatever is fairly included in the definition of freedom.
Freedom and slavery, 268-9.
more or less, with the freedom of all his fellow-citizens.
master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
interfere with the freedom of others more or less seriously.
labour and freedom all over the world.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Freedom is not negotiable.
Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Liberty is the right to do whatever the laws permit.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.
I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.