It was hard for some people to realize at the close of World War II that we could never again retire behind the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and rely on friends abroad to protect democracy and freedom.

I know that every loyal American citizen desires lasting peace based on freedom and justice for all men.

Free men in every land are asking: 'Where is this leading? .... When will it end?'

liberty and the dignity of man shall not perish from the earth.

Our cause is not only liberty for ourselves but liberation for others.

The action taken today by your Government has hastened the coming of the inevitable victory of freedom over oppression.

We, too, are fighting for our freedom and it is natural and right that The Netherlands and the United States have joined hands in the common struggle.

The spiritual liberties of mankind are in jeopardy.

With the united help of all free men and of all the great institutions of freedom, we shall create a new world in which there is freedom of worship and utterance, freedom from want and from fear, for all peoples everywhere in the world.

We are determined to establish a new age of freedom on this earth.

You are not only fighting for your own country and your people—you are, in the larger sense, delegates of freedom.

From the inspiration and the ideals which gave birth to this Nation, there has come the largest measure of liberty that man has yet devised.

They are defending the very principles of liberty and freedom.

Freedom was won here by fortitude not by the flash of the sword.

We are still fighting this war of independence.

It is unnecessary for me to argue the fact that the very essence of freedom is obedience to law; that liberty itself has but one foundation, and that is in the law.

It is progress of and service of a nation in the upbuilding of the institutions of freedom; its contribution to the growth of liberty, the development of humane relations, the advancement of the individual man--which measures the soul and might of nations.

It is axiomatic that a free press can exist only in a free country.