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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.

The Revolution was made to preserve our ancient indisputable laws and liberties, and that ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty.

To me there was no question so important as the emancipation of women from the dogmas of the past, political, religious, and social.

Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities.

No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!

It is better for those who have almost unlimited power of government in their hands to err on the side of freedom.

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

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

To balance probabilities, where life and liberty hang on the result, requires steady nerves.

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.

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 Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.

The guaranties of civil liberty are but guaranties of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will.

depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures

If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.

paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell