The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free.

In whatever manner the separate parts of a constitution may be arranged, there is one general principle that distinguishes freedom from slavery, which is, that all hereditary government over a people is to them a species of slavery, and representative government is freedom.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20

Power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.