Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

If we can return to a government that the Founders in their wisdom envisioned for us we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again and our people to live in liberty.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.