Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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.
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.
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.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
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.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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.
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