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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 16, 1948

The time has come when the free men and women of the world must face the threat to their liberty squarely and courageously.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 16, 1948

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 13, 1942

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 11, 1942

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Aug 21, 1942

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Aug 5, 1942

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.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jun 7, 1942

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.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jun 7, 1942

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

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Jun 7, 1942

The spiritual liberties of mankind are in jeopardy.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 27, 1942

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

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 21, 1932

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.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 21, 1929

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.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Apr 12, 1929

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…

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Calvin Coolidge
@calvincoolidge· Republican · VT· Apr 7, 1926

A free and enlightened press, by this means, becomes one of the safeguards of liberty.

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