Other Notable Americans 03

Geraldine Ferraro

If you take advantage of everything America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Martin H. Fischer

Of all the supervised conditions for life offered man, those under USA's constitution have proved the best. Wherefore, be sure when you start modifying, corrupting or abrogating it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.

It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

John Gunther

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Nathan Hale

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Alexander Hamilton

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

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