“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
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
President Harry S. Truman
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Gerald Stanley Lee
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
Wendell L. Wilkie
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”
Sinclair Lewis
“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
“My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.”
Val Saintsburt
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“America means opportunity, freedom, power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Edward Abbey
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy
