While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.