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Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored.

The American system rests on the assertion of the equal right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to freedom of conscience, to the culture and exercise of all his faculties.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class,—it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in “We, the people.”

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.

in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.

Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.

This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.

After becoming citizens they are entitled, under the Constitution and laws, to be placed on a perfect equality with native-born citizens, and in this character they should ever be kindly recognized.

Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.