This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!