American people Quote by John F. Kennedy

If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the…

— Frank I. Cobb

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

— John F. Kennedy

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

— Will Durant

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and…

— Frederick Douglass

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

— Euripides

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all.

— Ilana Mercer

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk…

— Andrew Jackson

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.…

— Thomas Paine

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he…

— Malcolm X

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access…

— Franz Kafka

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor

— Andrew Johnson

Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by…

— Julius Evola