It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.