
2000s, 2003, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (November 2003)
Acceptance speech at Republic National Convention (September 2, 2004)
2000s, 2004
2000s, 2003, Address to the National Endowment for Democracy (November 2003)
Speech given January 2003.
This American Life http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/04/258.html, Ep. 258, 01/30/04, Leaving the Fold; Act One.
2000s, 2005, Second Inaugural Address (January 2005)
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 186
Undated
“It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future… - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.”
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 46.
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
2000s, Speech at the Four Seasons, New York (25 September 2008)
“This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.”
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
Context: This is a Day of Affirmation, a celebration of liberty. We stand here in the name of freedom.
At the heart of that Western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man, the child of God, is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any Western society.
The first element of this individual liberty is the freedom of speech: the right to express and communicate ideas, to set oneself apart from the dumb beasts of field and forest; to recall governments to their duties and obligations; above all, the right to affirm one's membership and allegiance to the body politic — to society — to the men with whom we share our land, our heritage, and our children's future.