I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

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 great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

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.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

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.

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

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.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.