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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
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.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
This land is your land, this land is my land
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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.
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