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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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.
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.
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
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.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.
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.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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