This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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.
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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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.
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.
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.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
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.
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'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
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