What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
A good example is the best sermon.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
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