Freedom

Americans today enjoy a good life but we know that we can never expect a free life to be an easy life.

It is the only ruler that free men desire.

History may well record that we saved liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education.

The frontier's story, like America's, is that people aren't free for very long unless they are also responsible.

Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and it is the only ruler that free men desire.

If we expect a Nation to be ignorant and free, we expect what never was and what never will be.

If we are to be the champions of freedom for individual man everywhere or anywhere, we must be champions for freedom at home.

I am proud to be standing here only a few blocks from the War Memorial Plaza which honors men who sacrificed for freedom.

None can know just how long the fight for freedom in southeast Asia will take, but we of the United States are resolved not to falter or to grow weary in the struggle.

We have peace and we prize it, but we prize freedom and honor more.

If freedom is to stand strong, free men must be devoted to strength, must be devoted to social justice, to the dignity of the individual, and to the love of peace.

As you know so well, freedom is never a static doctrine.

We knew it was right and necessary to help these poorer countries to a better life if we were to preserve our own good life and expand the family of the free.

America seeks a growing partnership of freedom, a partnership that is based on shared respect of reality and shared responsibility for effective defense.

So let me say, General, simply, as we begin our visit, that this enormous strength has only one purpose, and that purpose is to keep the peace for free men everywhere in the world.

It is by our deeds and not by our words that we lead the rest of the world in the cause of freedom.

A nation so strong and free as ours can tolerate the widest diversity of opinion and belief, and it actually can be made stronger by full and responsible discussion.

I know, from what Congressman Wayne Hays of Ohio has told me, how much the parliamentarians have done to plan to ensure that this great instrument of the defense of freedom will flourish and continue to keep the peace.