Religious liberty came not from the Reformation or from the sects as a whole but from particular sects...especially those which the Reformation sough… - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

Liberty becomes a question of morals more that politics.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success.

To proclaim the Pope infallible was their compendious security against hostile States and Churches, against human liberty and authority, against disintegrating tolerance and rationalizing science, against error and sin.