"The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth.
The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding it.
The moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right.
Eventually, the call of freedom comes to every mind and every soul. We do not accept the existence of permanent tyranny because we do not accept the possibility of permanent slavery. Liberty will come to those who love it.
To serve your people you must learn to trust them.
It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.
You have seen that life is fragile, and evil is real, and courage triumphs. Make the choice to serve in a cause larger than your wants, larger than yourself –
In America’s ideal of freedom, the public interest depends on private character – on integrity, and tolerance toward others, and the rule of conscience in our own lives.
ideals of justice and conduct that are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
the exercise of rights is ennobled by service, and mercy, and a heart for the weak.
God moves and chooses as He wills.
We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul.
History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty.
May God bless you, and may He watch over the-"
-This is much more than I thought I would include. I think that it is important to look atthese as words that parrallel words in the Bible in order to grasp their true meaning.
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