“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.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech”
Benjamin Franklin
“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 are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
Archibald MacLeish
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling”
Abraham Lincoln