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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Sep 10, 2025
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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.