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The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.
Sep 10, 2025
American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.
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.
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
What America first means is we put the national interests of the United States and the well-being of our own country and our own people first. Our foreign policy, first and foremost, should be focused on the defense of American freedom, security and rights.
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
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?
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
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.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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.
We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
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.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
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.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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.