4th Of July Military Quotes:

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

topic: Veterans Day, Courage, Memories, India Independence Day, 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.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Freedom, Flower, 4th Of July, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Country, Inaugural Speech, Independence Day Patriotic

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Pain, Freedom, Fear, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: 4th Of July, Revolution, American Revolution, Independence Day Patriotic, 4th Of July Inspirational

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

- Samuel Adams

source: Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”

topic: Country, Liberty, Hazards, American Revolution, Civil Liberties

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Freedom, Land, Failing, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: 4th Of July, Liberty, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

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

topic: 4th Of July, Kids, Gun, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

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

topic: 4th Of July, Blow, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

- Joseph Addison

topic: 4th Of July, Hands, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July, Love Freedom, Independence And Freedom

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

- James G. Blaine

topic: Country, 4th Of July, United States, July 4th 1776, Inspiring Independence Day

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

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.

- Richard Henry Lee

source: Resolution presented to Continental Congress, 7 June 1776

topic: 4th Of July, Independent, Political, Colony, 4th Of July Military

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

- Dick Cheney

source: "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

topic: Taken, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

- Albert Camus

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Chance, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

- J. Horace McFarland

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Fire, July 4, Inspirational Patriotic

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Clever, Independence And Freedom, Man And Superman

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

- John Burroughs

topic: Independence, Independence Day, Blank, July 4, Orators