Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, and I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, as I listened to the gentleman from Ohio talk and to spread this philosophy that somehow, first, there are principles that they've been trying to drag back and establish rights that don't exist for a long time. This goes back to, probably, Woodrow Wilson or earlier, but FDR comes to mind. And if one should go out to FDR's Memorial here in this city, you'll see the memorial that displays the four freedoms. Back in those years, Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a speech about the four freedoms, and Norman Rockwell painted the cover of a magazine on that that showed the four freedoms, one at a time. The first freedom was, freedom--let's see--freedom of speech. The second one was freedom of religion. The third one was freedom from want, and the fourth one was freedom from fear. Now, I go back and look at that, and I don't think I was very old when I first realized about that speech of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the four freedoms speech--the freedom of speech, religion, want, and fear--and I knew even then, as a young man, that there is no freedom from want and there is no freedom from fear, that these are things that can be resolved. These aren't rights that come from God. Our liberty comes from God. It says so in the Declaration. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.…”