“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Benjamin Franklin
“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.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Daniel Webster
“What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.”
George Pataki
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”