George Nethercutt Quotes

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

With the blessings of liberty, we have responsibilities to defend it.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

This country has been around for over 200 years because we live by hope and vision.

… for promoting the liberty, safety, and interest of America.

Liberty is what we Americans wanted most of all.

Only Americans can say, My homeland is freedom.

An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the right of free men.

The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves — not of the government.

It has given me an intense appreciation for this country and the wonders and freedoms that are associated with it.

This is what I call the American idea of freedom — a government of the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice — the unchanging law of God.