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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

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

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

“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 means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”

“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.”

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

“My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

“All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago”

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”

“Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.”

“The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.”

“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”

“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.”

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”

“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.”