Barack Obama: “All Americans are united in support of our men and women in uniform, who serve so that we can live in freedom and…”

This idea that any suggestion or criticism that America was anything other than perfect is unpatriotic... is a suggestion that you hate your country.

We designed the center not to be some lifeless mausoleum.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

In forming our union, the founders fell terribly short of the Declaration's promise, leaving slavery intact, allowing states to restrict the franchise to white men who owned property.