Freedom

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Liberty is the right to choose, freedom is the result of that choice.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.