"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...
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
~ John F. Kennedy ~
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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submi...
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
"And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation – the right ...
"Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.
"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.
"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of a...
"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!'
"In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power u...
"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...