Freedom

The protection of freedom where freedom is threatened has more ultimate meaning throughout the world than all the products or technology that we may ever export.

We do not want to dominate any people.

We welcome it--for we hear, in that sound, the echo of 1776.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

We prize your individuality.

Medical care will free millions from their miseries.

Not all of us can help directly to win the fight for freedom in Vietnam, but every one of us can do his share to support our men who are out there in Vietnam fighting for us.

If our magnificent young men can die for freedom in a foreign land, how can we refuse any of them a full measure of freedom and opportunity here at home?

It is simply that there is no rest from the trials of freedom, there is no recalling what the pace of change has done to the map of this big world, there is no reducing our responsibilities while the challenges of progress will not permit…

Nothing in our proud heritage surpasses the significance of that great struggle for freedom nearly two hundred years ago.

We will support these men who are defending our freedom to debate.

We would feed the hungry and we would shelter the homeless, and we would do all of this as free men making liberty the companion of progress.

Let no citizen that is secure in his own liberty ever forget how precious it is and how brave we must be if we are to keep it.

We shall be just, and we shall be prudent, and we shall also be prompt and brave, for we are determined here in America that peace shall not perish, and the cause of freedom shall not be failed.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and of human dignity.

To abandon our commitments, to withdraw from our responsibilities, would endanger free men and free women everywhere, and would bring the hope for peace to an end.

We are prepared to defend peace and freedom and do it promptly against any act of hostility or aggression anywhere.

We in the United States remain ready, as I know you do, to work with all our allies to insure that ours is a growing partnership of freedom based on shared responsibility for the most effective defense of our people and our freedom.