Next to Love (which includes all true Religion), Liberty is the highest boon, the grandest attainment of human existence.

Next to Religion and Love, it is the word that has been most abused, and in whose name more cruelties have been perpetrated, more wrongs inflicted, more oppressions and slaveries fostered, than any other word or term in any language. Its Synonym, Freedom, has been the prompting impetus of more self-sacrifice, more mighty endeavor than any other human aspiration.

In its name millions of the bravest, truest and best have perished on fields of carnage or by axe or guillotine, or pined away in dungeon cell.

The occasions for seeking and maintaining Liberty are;

Resisting oppression, i. e., resisting physical bondage;

Defending the home and its sacred inmates;

Defending the country (the synonym of "home");

Defending the right to mental liberty;

Defending the right to "liberty of conscience," i. e., Religious convictions and observances.