Liberty University is a private, Christian university located in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States. Liberty's annual enrollment is 12,500 residential students and 80,000+ studying through Liberty University Online. When including the number of people taking its online courses, LU would be ranked as the largest Evangelical Christian university in the world, the nation's 7th largest four-year university and the largest university in Virginia.
Liberty's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Liberty Flames. They compete in the Big South Conference.
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“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
—Slogan by Czech university students in Prague, November 1989. quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 26, 1989)