Founding Fathers

1. Thomas Jefferson
“All men are created equal… they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”

2. John Adams
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

3. Benjamin Franklin
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”

American Leaders

4. George Washington
 “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty… is staked on the experiment entrusted to the

hands of the American people.”

5. Abraham Lincoln
 “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
 “Freedom cannot be bestowed—it must be achieved.”

Modern Voices & Thinkers

7. Martin Luther King Jr.
 “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

8. Ronald Reagan
 “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

Universal Reflections on Freedom

9. John F. Kennedy
 “Let every nation know… that we shall pay any price… to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

10. Eleanor Roosevelt
 “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.”