Freedom is not America's gift to the world, it is the Almighty God's gift to every man and woman in this world.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom.
By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.