This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.

The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.

In our inner individual lives we can never be indifferent, and we assert for ourselves complete freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the principles for which our flag has so long been the lofty symbol.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope, in the world?

You must not compromise your principles, but you must not humiliate the opposition.

The success of communism in the world today is due to the failure of democracy to live up to the noble ideals and principles inherent in its system.