“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”

“Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.”

“How oft, in nations gone corrupt,And by their own devices brought down to servitude,That man chooses bondage before liberty.Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.”

“Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.”

“In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”

“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”