Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
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 submission.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
