Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.