“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
Speech (3 June 1834); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume iv, page 47
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“But may God, who grants pardon and loves to save man”
Quoted in, Material for a History of Pope Alexander VI, Peter de Roo, 2:378 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=%22God%2C+who+grants+pardon+and+loves+to+save+man%22&id=mdp.39015013144061&view=1up&seq=9 http://www.attomelani.net/index.php/english/the-new-series-of-monaldi-sorti/the-doubts-of-salai/ Compare: For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people." - St. Augustine, On the Verse of the Psalm: God Will Come Openly, (420-425), Sermon 18:2. Works of Saint Augustine, A translation for the 21st Century, (1990), Pt. III - Sermons, vol. I, (1-19), Edmund Hill, O.P.,translation and notes, John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., New City Press, New York, p. 374. Latin: Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare, et ideo patiens est in malos, ut de malis faciat bonos. http://www.augustinus.it/latino/discorsi/discorso_022_testo.htm http://books.google.com/books?id=Z2w7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT10&dq=Non+enim+amat+Deus+damnare+sed+salvare,+et+ideo+patiens&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_c41U5u-BbTTsASR8oDwDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Non%20enim%20amat%20Deus%20damnare%20sed%20salvare%2C%20et%20ideo%20patiens&f=false
Context: But may God, who grants pardon and loves to save man, in his goodness, give strength to us and make prosperous the Holy See.
“How ready are the gods to grant supremacy to men, and how unready to maintain it!”
O faciles dare summa deos eademque tueri
difficiles!
Book I, line 510 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“God loves only those who are not concerned with anything else.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 80
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“To thee only God granted
A heart ever new:
To all always open;
To all always true.”
"Switzerland", IV. "Parting" (1853)
Letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789); reported in Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin (1907), Volume 10, p. 72; often quoted as, "Where liberty dwells, there is my country".
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Source: Quote by Smita Nair Jain, goodreads, 2018-07-20 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1918172.Smita_Nair_Jain,
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)