
America was founded as the land of the open door.
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America was founded as the land of the open door.

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not.

I am glad to come here today and to see the foundations that you in Maryland are building, the foundations that you have already laid, the predicates that you have planned for the preservation of freedom and of happiness.

Eduction is the only dictator that free men will ever recognize and the only ruler that free men will accept.

I have come tonight to ask this Congress and this Nation to resolve that issue: to meet our commitments at home and abroad-to continue to build a better America--and to reaffirm this Nation's allegiance to freedom.

Today, the light of that great charter guides us yet.

Few documents in all the history of freedom have ever so illuminated the paths of men.

That light--and that promise--was America's Bill of Rights.

We in America love and cherish our liberty and our independence and our freedom, and we do not try to impose it upon other people.

It is right, therefore, that I should end my trip through Asia here in Korea, where the four goals of freedom adopted at Manila are on their way to achievement.

The country I just came from, Malaysia, which, with our British brothers, loves freedom, they came in--Australia, New Zealand, and others--and they stopped the Communist envelopment there.

As I said in the beginning, until we learn to do our job, understand others, get along, be as efficient, be as competent as you, until the politicians get to understand people, we are going to have to protect liberty and freedom.

So I stand on this hallowed soil of Korea tonight--for whose freedom thousands of my countrymen died alongside yours--confident that we shall redeem their sacrifice, confident that the cause of freedom will prevail in Asia.

The ties that link the Malaysian and American peoples can only become stronger as we pursue our common goals:--as we build democracy and protect freedom;--as we resist aggression and subversion;--as we seek an end to world tensions; and--as we strive to eliminate ignorance and illiteracy, disease and poverty.

Sometimes men must die in order that freedom may live.

I believe that in the lifetime of men now living, the human race will emerge into the sunlit uplands of peace and freedom.

The very name of your great nation means, in my own language, 'land of the free.'

You know what you are fighting for: to give the Vietnamese people a chance to build the kind of nation that they want, free from terror, free from intimidation, free from fear.