Freedom

We will always stand with you in the defense of freedom.

We must subordinate our loyalty to any group to a greater loyalty and commitment to the moral principle upon which this Republic was founded, that is, to freedom and to justice and to the brotherhood of man.

We reject the thought of our families living in a faceless, regimented, monotonous America.

Freedom is not on the run anywhere in the world--not in Europe, Asia, Africa, or Latin America--as it might well have been without U.S. aid.

The first is the right of every nation to govern itself, to be free from outside dictation and coercion, to mold its own economy and society in any fashion consistent with the will of the people.

I come here today with 180 million fellow Americans who want this hemisphere to be free, and who want this hemisphere to be an example to a watching world in the crucial years of this century and this decade.

Our high voyage, Mr. President, is not to seek new lands to conquer, but to make sure that old lands remain free.

Americans are free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it.

We are wholeheartedly behind your effort to maintain the freedom of your people and we wish for you what we wish for ourselves, and that is peace and an opportunity to develop our country.

We stand with Venezuela, we stand with you, in the fight for freedom during these great days of the sixties.

In freeing themselves, the Negroes have enlarged the freedoms of all Americans.

From Peiping to Warsaw, from Budapest to Havana, millions of people have lost their freedom.

If we succeed here, if we can build a strong and vital society, then the cause of freedom is strengthened.

We are the chief defenders of freedom, and it is incumbent upon us to get moving again.

But if you hold my view that the United States as the great defender of freedom in the 1960's has to move ahead, has to provide opportunity for its people, has to develop in this country a strong and vigorous society which it cannot…

If we fail here, if we drift, if we lie at anchor, if we don't provide an example of what freedom can do in the 1960's, then we have betrayed not only ourselves and our destiny, but all those who desire to be free and are not free.

In a difficult and trying time in the life of our country, in the cause of freedom, may bring candles to help illuminate our country's way.

We look toward the day when the men and women of Poland shall stand again in freedom and justice, and we shall hasten, by every honorable and responsible means, the arrival of that day.