The U.N. must reform to remain relevant and to play a still stronger role in the march of freedom, peace, and prosperity.

For 45 years we challenged the people of these nations to cast off the yoke of communism.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

I am glad that Tom Dodd will be remembered here, in this place, in this building, with this center, in the State he loved, with the very best arsenal for the freedom he fought to defend his entire life.

We need old-fashioned values: freedom and responsibility, work and family...

People, when given a choice, will not choose to live under dictators.

Fifty years ago today, on the deck of the aircraft carrier Missouri in Tokyo Bay, freedom finally prevailed.

Never before had the fight for freedom stretched across such a vast expanse of land and sea.

They were extraordinary Americans who made reason their weapon, freedom their cause, and peace their goal.

Advance text of the President's speech to the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom Policy Conference

To be worthy of that sacrifice, we must determine in this time to remain the strongest nation in the world so that our freedom is never again threatened.

His life should have special impact for every American, for he freed the rest of us, too, of our hatred, our bigotry, of the illusion which still crops up from time to time that we can somehow lift ourselves up by putting others down.

Today, my fellow Americans, I want to talk to you about our common right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Now that freedom has been won, our nations must be determined that it will never be lost again.

We believe in the promise of freedom; we believe in the promise of democracy; we believe in the promise of open, free trade.

Security, peace, and freedom are on the march.

Today we honor all those who gave their lives and all those who have risked their lives so that our Nation might remain free.

The vigilant protection of these basic freedoms is the world's best hope for a Europe of growing cooperation and lasting peace.