We need an America with the wisdom of experience.  But we must not let America grow old in spirit.  ~Hubert H. Humphrey   Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  ~Abraham Lincoln   Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.  ~Moshe Dayan   And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. ~Lee Greenwood   It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.  ~Sallust   My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.  ~Author Unknown   Freedom is not enough.  ~Lyndon B. Johnson   From every mountain side Let Freedom ring. ~Samuel F. Smith, “America”   We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.  ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914     Freedom is never free.  ~Author Unknown   One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes   America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. ~ Adlai Stevenson   In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt   Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~ Thomas Paine   There is nothing wrong with America that ...

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. ~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899   Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.  ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905   It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.  ~J. Horace McFarland   The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt   I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.  ~Simone de Beauvoir   The United States is the only country with a known birthday.  ~James G. Blaine     Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.  The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.  ~Thomas Macaulay   Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ~John Dickinson   We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.  ~William Faulkner   My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!  ~Thomas Jefferson   What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” ...

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.  ~John Burroughs, Journal   Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.  ~Louis D. Brandeis   Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.  ~Albert Camus   It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler   Liberty is the breath of life to nations.  ~George Bernard Shaw   America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.  ~Adlai Stevenson   May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!  ~Daniel Webster   We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.  ~Robert J. McCracken   If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.  ~Hamilton Fish   I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.  ~Author Unknown   I love my freedom.  I love my America.  ~Jessi Lane Adams   Without freedom, no one really has a name.  ~Milton Acorda   Where liberty dwells, there is my country.  ~Benjamin Franklin

  Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine   He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  ~Thomas Paine   This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.  ~Elmer Davis   The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.  ~Woodrow Wilson   Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick   Let freedom never perish in your hands.  ~Joseph Addison   You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.  You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.  ~Erma Bombeck   Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower   In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt   A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.  ~Curtis Billings   Freedom’s natal day is here. Fire ...

                 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.   They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.   I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.   That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.   Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.   Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.   While Gen’l Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards N. York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress…It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent ...

                   

   

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! From every mountainside Let Freedom ring. My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. … I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the ...

               

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.Happy Independence Day.   It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.Happy Independence Day…!! Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people ...

A nation, where the spirit of pride, greatness and honor is common to every soul, living or dead. A nation, that makes me proud, America.   Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.Happy Independence Day.   It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.Happy Independence Day…!!   My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. Happy Independence Day…!!   I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. Happy Independence Day…!!   On our beloved nation’s Independence Day, I remember and salute the souls that went down for the national pride. Happy 4th of July.   With a true national spirit of courage, integrity, sacrifice, liberty and independence, I wish you a Happy Independence Day. Happy 4th of July.   The strides of freedom and courage, shall be remembered today. Happy 4th of July.   A spirit of equality and faith, and a belief of courage and faith. I wish you a Happy 4th of July. Take pride, America.   Let us never forget the brave souls that fought and served for the pride and peace of our nation. Happy 4th of July. A nation, that makes me proud, America.   Today, on the day of national glory, lets salute the courageous souls that went down for our Nation. America is proud of those souls. Happy 4th of July.   Celebrate the power of pride, courage and faith, that we all share. Let us all salute the spirit of America. Happy ...