"To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort…"

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

"What would you have me do? Search out some powerful patronage, and be Like crawling ivy clinging to a tree? No thank …"

"I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progr…"

"The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass f…"

"Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free."

"If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in oth…"

"Wisdom is not absolute autocracy and independence of the soul, but obedience and subordination of the soul to higher …"

"Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free."

"A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work."