Barack Obama Quotes

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

Our history is imperfect, but it has laid the groundwork for the greatest experiment in democracy the world has ever known: America.

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

… in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

American history is seen to be the development of the first mass democracy on earth.

I don't know how you talk about the founding of America, and what became of the United States, without talking about religious doctrine.

America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders did, creating a fragile mechanism by which men and women could actually govern themselves.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

Our founders did not write that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.'

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.