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Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.

This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.

Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.

After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.

Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.

The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.

Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.

One of the benefits of freedom is that under it the ruler can not pass by the people's minds, and amend their affairs for them without amending them.

The spectacle is exhibited to the world of a government deriving its powers from the consent of the governed and having imparted to it only so much power as is necessary for its successful operation.