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  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
  • The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

    Way   Serious   Danger  
    Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”
  • The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.

    "House defies Bush, votes to repeal part of Patriot Act / Checks on library, bookstore records would be banned" by Edward Epstein, www.sfgate.com. June 16, 2005.
  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

    God   Country   War  
    Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  • We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

    Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.183, Humanix Books
  • The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

  • No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

    Men   Talking   America  
  • We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

    Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

    Life   Change   Happiness  
    Declaration of Independence (1776).
  • Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

    "The One Un-American Act". William O. Douglas' speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award, December 3, 1952.
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

    Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

    Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136
  • I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

    "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.
  • And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people... Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

  • These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.

    Hate   Tyrants   People  
  • For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

    Gore Vidal (2011). “Burr: A Novel”, p.598, Vintage
  • I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

    Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.
  • Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

    Lying   Mean   Hands  
    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention
  • American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

  • The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

    Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

    Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey
  • Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

    Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention
  • Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

    "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963
  • Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.
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