Freedom

"Your officers behaved like men determined to be free." Wounded soldier to George Washington

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." – Abraham Lincoln

“Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.” – Ronald Regan

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.” – Jim Morrison

“Rochester: "Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."

Jane: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. – Ronald Reagan

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits." – Thomas Jefferson

We are very much supportive of the family--the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that... We know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles. -- Chick-fil-A's CEO Dan Cathy

Congratulations Alex, you are truly an American-proud and free. welcome to your new life. you will never sing that song again without remembering this special and wonderful moment. God bless you.-- James Webb

“I heartily accept the motto, —‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — ‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Once the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.” – Benjamin Franklin

Let your family hear this today.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. – Louis D. Brandeis

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. – Thomas Paine

Let freedom never perish in your hands. – Joseph Addison

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! – Daniel Webster

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! – Thomas Jefferson

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." – Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring. – Samuel F. Smith, "America"

And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me. – Lee Greenwood

“The journey to freedom has been thousands of years long. Now that it has found its place in the world, the question for those of us who experience its benefits is simply this: Will we work to preserve the miracle of freedom that we enjoy today?” – Chris Stewart

"The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."– Samuel Adams

Obamacare is a freedom taking precedent setting tax on something you do not do.

"Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States." – Mitt Romney

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on to them to do the same." -- Ronald Reagan