“Our natural unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government. And freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.” – Ronald Reagan
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the blood-stream. 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
"A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends." – James Monroe
"No man ever remains free who acquiesces in what he knows to be wrong." – Harold J. Laski
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by individuals who labor in freedom." – Albert Einstein
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." – Daniel Webster
"If you expect people to be ignorant and free you expect what never was and never will be." – Thomas Jefferson
"Eternal vigilance is the condition, not only of liberty, but of everything which as civilized men we hold dear." – August Heckscher
"Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace." – Amelia Earhart
"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States." – George Washington
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." – Wendell Phillips
"I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s, and Truth’s." – Daniel Webster
"They did not only leave the old world, they repudiated it. Americans start from scratch." – Thornton Wilder
"America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality." – Adlai Stevenson
"I for one will never concede that we cannot do as much in defense of our freedoms as any enemy may be doing to destroy them." – Bernard M. Baruch
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." – Calvin Coolidge
"We are fighting [WWII] because we have the best way of life yet learned by mankind and we want to preserve it." – Philip Wylie
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none." – Thomas Jefferson
"There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream." – Archibald MacLeish
"The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children." – William Harvard
“Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the Christian religion.” – Noah Webster
“[T]he religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles.” – Noah Webster
“This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.” – Noah Webster
“[T]he [federal] government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, and oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people.” – George Washington
“By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects. . . . It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has been published. . . . All systems of religion, morals, and government not founded upon it [the Bible] must perish, and how consoling the thought, it will not only survive the wreck of these systems but the world itself. "The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." [Matthew 1:18]“ – Benjamin Rush, Signer of Declaration of Independence
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters " – Benjamin Franklin
" Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust in the best way all our present difficulties.” – Abraham Lincoln
“[T]he primary objects of government are the peace, order, and prosperity of society. . . . To the promotion of these objects, particularly in a republican government, good morals are essential. Institutions for the promotion of good morals are therefore objects of legislative provision and support: and among these . . . religious institutions are eminently useful and important. . . . [T]he legislature, charged with the great interests of the community, may, and ought to countenance, aid and protect religious institutions—institutions wisely calculated to direct men to the performance of all the duties arising from their connection with each other, and to prevent or repress those evils which flow from unrestrained passion.” – Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice of Supreme Ct., 1802
