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The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.

— Pope Pius IX

“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have…

— David Hume

“Thus, though we ought boldly to resist those teachers of tradition, and though the laws of the pontiffs, by which they make aggressions on…

— Martin Luther

“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.”

— John Stuart Mill

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”

— James MacGregor Burns

“virtue without power,” as a speaker had said at the Council of Basle half a century earlier, “will only be mocked, and that the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent…

— Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

— Noah Webster

If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government…

— James Madison

I see the liberty of the individual not only as a great moral good in itself (or, with Lord Acton, as the highest political…

— Murray Rothbard

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland