To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

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

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.