A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.
- Newt Gingrich


A people free to choose will always choose peace.
- Ronald Reagan


Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
- Ronald Reagan


Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.
- Ben Franklin


But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
- John McCain


But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
- Abraham Lincoln


Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
- Ronald Reagan


Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein


Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
- George_W Bush


Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
- George_W Bush


Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
- Colin Powell


Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
- Mahatma Gandhi


Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
- Ronald Reagan


Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
- Ronald Reagan


Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
- Ronald Reagan


Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
- George_W Bush


Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- Ronald Reagan


I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
- George_W Bush


I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
- George_W Bush


I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
- George_W Bush


If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson


If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- George Washington


If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- George Washington


It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain


It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- George Washington


Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
- Ronald Reagan


Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington


Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
- Joe Biden


Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan


Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mahatma Gandhi


No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
- Ronald Reagan


No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
- Thomas Jefferson


Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln


The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
- Thomas Jefferson


The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
- John McCain


The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson


The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- George Washington


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson


The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
- George_W Bush


Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln


Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln


Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson


To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
- Barack Obama
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We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
- Ronald Reagan


Where liberty is, there is my country.
- Ben Franklin


Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
- Thomas Jefferson


You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
- Ronald Reagan