"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of n...












Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.
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"The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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"But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities tod...
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrin...
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that i...
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be b...
"And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength a...
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