Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.