On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.
Leave us to our free election.
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
We are not just any nation.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Where liberty is, there is my country.