Best American Freedom Quotes

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.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Whether it’s people walking off ‘The View’ when Bill O’Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people… it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government’s power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people… Each day we must ask that Almighty God will set and keep His protecting hand over us so that we may pass on to those who come after us the heritage of a free people, secure in their God-given rights and in full control of a Government dedicated to the preservation of those rights.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

In my lifetime, it’s the Supreme Court, not Congress, that integrated our public schools, that allowed people of different races to marry, and established the principle that our government should respect the value of privacy of American families. These decisions are the legacy of justices who chose to expand American freedom.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won’t be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.