In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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.
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.
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