Pope Liberius, on being threatened with exile by the Arian Emperor Constantius if he would not condemn St. Athanasius: “We have already given our last farewell to our brethren at Rome; and we attach more value to the ecclesiastical laws than to our continued residence in that city.” [And when offered money for the journey from an official who worked for the emperor]: “Tell the emperor to keep the money to pay his soldiers, and to gratify the greed of bis ministers.” (quoted by William Hayes Neligan in his work “The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs: From St. Peter to Pius IX., pub. 1867”)