Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.
I was born with a fierce need for independence.
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.
I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
No opposing quotes found.