Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.