Individuals who expect to reap the blessings of liberty, 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 which will reach himself. ~ Thomas Paine
This nation will remain the property of the free only so long as it's the home of the brave. ~ Elmer Davis
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation Woodrow Wilson
Liberty is always dangerous, but it's the safest thing we have. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Let liberty never perish in your hands. ~ Joseph Addison
You need to love a country that celebrates its autonomy every July 4, not with a parade of firearms, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a display 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 be thinking you have overeaten, but it's patriotism. ~ Erma Bombeck
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of guys and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life giving roots, it is going to wither and die. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the truest sense, independence cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~
A few calculations were made by a statistician and discovered that since the arrival of our nation more lives were lost in observing autonomy than in winning it. ~ Curtis Billings
The natal day of freedom is here.
Fire the guns and yell for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Most beloved flag in all the world.
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was at first. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we're not weak enough to keep the beliefs. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
For what avail the plough or sail, or property or life, if freedom fail? ~
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that subsequently artillerymen and orators shoot on blank cartridges. ~ Journal, John Burroughs
Individuals who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~ Louis D. Brandeis
Liberty is nothing but a chance to be better. ~ Albert Camus
It's easy to take liberty for granted, when you've never had it taken from you Writer unknown, occasionally caused by M. Grundler
Liberty is the breath of life to states. ~ George Bernard Shaw
America is much more when compared to a geographical fact. It really is a moral and political 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 path visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own nation! ~ Daniel Webster
We on this continent shouldn't ever forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to locate soil due to their souls. ~ but to procure liberty due to their ploughs
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let's work out that it's truly worth living for in time of peace. ~ Hamilton Fish
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~ Author Unknown
I adore my liberty. I love my America. ~ Jessi Lane Adams
Without independence, no one actually has a name. ~ Milton Acorda
Where liberty dwells, there is my nation. ~ Benjamin Franklin
All we have of freedom, all we use or understand -
This our fathers bought for us.
~ Rudyard Kipling, 1899, The Old Problem
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men fear it. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Freedom and Equality," 1905
It's the love of country that's lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. ~ J. Horace McFarland
The winds that blow through the broad heavens the winds that brush from Canada to Mexico, in these mountains, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have consistently blown on men that are free. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent independence. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
The United States is the only nation with a birthday. ~ that is known
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they can be fit to use their liberty. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved to not 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
In childhood the day consistently fails too soon —except when there are likely to be fireworks; and then sunlight dawdles intolerably on the brink like a tedious guest. ~ tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
[F]ireworks had for her allure that is bewitching and a direct. Their draw was less simple than that of every other type of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and freedom; they'd suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they'd the supreme quality of transience, which sets the sharpest border on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach. ~ Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s [Notice: In its initial context, this excerpt is referring to fireworks on Guy Fawkes' Day, not the U.S.A. Independence Day. — tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
There was one exploding now, a fragile constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The closing rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was remarkable, dragonlike; it soared double as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from your rocket came pouring the sky vanishing one by one, in a slow golden cascade down into a lake of darkness. ~ Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s [Notice: In its original context, this excerpt is referring to fireworks on Guy Fawkes' Day, not the U.S.A. Independence Day. — tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
My God! Thomas Jefferson
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade
How frequently we fail to recognize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is significantly more than a dearth of tragedy. ~ Paul Sweeney
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
We need an America with the wisdom of expertise. But we mustn't let America grow old in spirit. ~
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not ~ Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~ Moshe Dayan
And I am proud to be an American,
Where I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
Who gave me that right.
~Lee Greenwood
It's pleasant to serve one's country by titles, which is not foolish to serve her Sallust
Blue, white, and my patriotic heart beats red. ~ Author Unknown
Independence is not enough. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
We're free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~ 31 May 1914, Ricardo Flores Magon, language
Independence is never free. ~ Author Unknown
There's nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what exactly is right with America. ~ William J. Clinton
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