The founding father's speech about "Liberty" (from HBO series "John Adams"):
Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of the princes and parliaments. That many of our rights are inherent and essential, agreed on as maxim and established as preliminaries, even before parliaments existed.
We have a right to them, derived from our Maker. Our forefathers have earned and bought liberties for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasures, and their blood.
Liberty is not built on the doctrines that a few nobles have a right to inherit the earth.
NO, NO!
It stands on this principle that the meanest and lowest of the people are, by the unalterable indefeasible laws of God and nature, as well entitled to the benefits of the air to breathe, the food to eat, and cloth to wear, as the nobles or the king.
That is liberty, and liberty will reign in America!
John Adams, Second President of the USA
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." [October 11, 1798]
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