"When you become acquainted with his (Luther's) horrible teaching, you will not wonder that to him the word "liberty", which excites a thrill and stirs the deepest feelings of the soul, had little or no significance.
The truth is that Luther rarely spoke or wrote of liberty in the sense in which we know and realize the God given boon. It is a well known fact of history that he did not favor that freedom of thought which later became the vogue among his progeny. Liberty, as he understood the word was solely for himself, but not for others. With him it was a personal matter . All men were free to differ with the Pope, to reject his teaching, to curse him to the lowest depths, were even invited and encouraged to slay him like a wolf or robber, and wash their hands in his blood and that of his cardinals and other adherents, but they must not dare to differ from Martin Luther."
The Facts of Luther
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