quotes 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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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.
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There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
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To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
-- Benjamin Rush -
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand Russell -
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.
-- Charles Bukowski -
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
-- Daniel WebsterSource : Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
-- Daniel Webster -
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
-- Daniel Webster -
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
-- David Letterman -
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
-- Dick CheneySource : "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.
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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 -
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.
-- e. e. cummings -
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The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.
-- Edward JenksSource : "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.
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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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 -
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
-- Erma Bombeck -
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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
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 -
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
-- Frederick Douglass -
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
-- Frederick Douglass -
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?
-- Frederick MarryatSource : Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
-- Frederick Reines -
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue
-- George M. CohanSource : "You're a Grand Old Flag" by George M. Cohan, 1906.
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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
-- George S. Patton -
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
-- George WashingtonSource : George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics.
-- George Washington -
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
-- George Washington -
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
-- George Washington -
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
-- George Washington -
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
-- George Washington -
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
-- George Washington -
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
-- George Washington -
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
-- George Washington -
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
-- George Washington -
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
-- George Washington -
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
-- George Washington -
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
-- George Washington -
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
-- George Washington -
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
-- George Washington -
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
-- George Washington -
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
-- George Washington -
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
-- George Washington -
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We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
-- George Washington -
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
-- George Washington -
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
-- George Washington -
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
-- George Washington -