Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Libertas—Liberty. M.

Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure licet—Liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits. L.

Libertas in legibus—Liberty under the laws. M.

Libertas, quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem—Liberty, which, though late, regarded me in my helpless state. Virg.

Libertas sub rege pio—Liberty under a pious 15 king. M.

Libertas ultima mundi / Quo steterit ferienda loco—In the spot where liberty has made her last stand she was fated to be smitten. Lucan.

Liberté toute entière—Liberty perfectly entire. M.

Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age. H. W. Lecky.

Liberty comes with Christianity, because Christianity develops and strengthens the mass of men. Ward Beecher.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome 20 restraint. Webster.