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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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.
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
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.
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.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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.
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.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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