America’s Confidence in Freedom
Condoleezza Rice Friday, 1 September 2006
These are critical, important, and even trying times for America, but it is a time when we must affirm what we stand for as a nation and what role we must play in the world. We in America are blessed with lives of tremendous liberty: the freedom to govern ourselves and elect our leaders; the freedom to own property; the freedom to educate our children; and of course the freedom to think as we please and to worship as we wish. America embodies these liberties, but we do not own them. We stand for ideals that are greater than ourselves, and we go into the world not to plunder but to protect, not to subjugate but to liberate, not as masters of others but as servants of freedom.
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