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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.
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.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of 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.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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.
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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.
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 means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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