[Referring to America] “She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
“Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.”
“The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.”
“Freedom is a gift that must be earned.”
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
“The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.”
“Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. / But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!”
“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”
Bush, : “Freedom itself was attacked by faceless cowards, and freedom will be defended.”
“I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.”
“I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging the struggle for freedom and security for the American people.”
“…many Americans also understand what I know to be true: free societies are peaceful societies.”
“Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.”
“Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.”
“The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.”
“You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.”
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
: “When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
: “The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom—they are the pillars of society.”
“The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.”
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
“Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.”
“I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.”
“Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.”
“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.”
“What those on the left often fail to grasp is that freedom is a debate, not a monologue. Freedom thrives only when there exists the give and take of ideas.” (Editorial, Tampa Tribune, 5/13/03)
“There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.”
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
“There is no easy walk to freedom.”
“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.”
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”
“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”
: “To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history, and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.”
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.”
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.”
“A democracy—that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness’ sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.”
“Freedom is a system based on courage.”
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”
Reagan, Ronald: “Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged”
“[It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”
“We, too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”
“Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those who show themselves worthy of it.”
“Those who would be free must be virtuous.”
“Economic freedom cannot exist without political freedom.”
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
“The secret of freedom, courage.”
“They [the Americans] are the hope of this world. They may become its model.”
“Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the colour of their skin.”