Alveda King Quotes

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

I believe in the greatness of our democracy.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.

The American people believe that we ought to control our government. On the other hand, we've seen government more and more controlling us

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.

I'm not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I've got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we're talking about and just how much of that liberty we're going to have.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

Every voter in Ukraine should have their say on the future they want for their country.

Voting rights matter. They are a major part of who we are as Americans.

They talk about the American Dream. I still believe in that. I still believe that this is a great country, where great things can happen, where anybody can become president of the United States. Just that simple statement there defines so much about the whole business of liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We...solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of a right ought to be free and independent states...and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

Voters are people with the God-given right to decide who will waste their money for them.