“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”
Audie Murphy
“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."”
Marilyn vos Savant
“Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.”
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
