The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.

(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.