Quotes and Sayings About 4th Of July
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
-- A. Philip RandolphSource : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
-- Abigail AdamsSource : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE
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While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New 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 State, or a Conquered Country.
-- Abraham Clark -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
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Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.
-- Adam KokeshSource : Adam Kokesh Calls For 'New American Revolution' by Paul Joseph Watson, www.infowars.com. May 24, 2013.
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Better to starve free than be a fat slave
-- AesopSource : Barbara McClintock, Aesop (2012). “Animal Fables from Aesop”, p.48, David R. Godine Publisher
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus -
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
-- Albert Camus -
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
-- Andrew JacksonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
-- Barack Obama -
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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
-- Barack Obama -
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
-- Benjamin FranklinSource : Benjamin Franklin (1907). “The Franklin Year Book: Maxims and Morals from the Great Philosopher”
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin