freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we did'nt pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must be fought for, protected, and handed on to them to do the same; or, one day, we will spending our sunset years telling our children and our childrens children, what it was once like in the united states where men were free.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

Many countries of the world, I said, had constitutions, but in almost every case they were documents in which governments told their people what they could do. The United States had a constitution, I said, that was different from all the others because in it the people tell their government what it can do. Its three most important words are "We the people," its most important principle, freedom.

Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.