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No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression.

It is better for those who have almost unlimited power of government in their hands to err on the side of freedom.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man

I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.

The Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.

The guaranties of civil liberty are but guaranties of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them.