Quotes courtesy of The Shutterfly Community
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, 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
“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
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
John Adams
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
Wendell L. Wilkie
“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
“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.”
James G. Blaine
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
Gerald Stanley Lee
“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.”
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.”
Val Saintsburt
“America means opportunity, freedom, power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
Patrick Henry
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
John F. Kennedy
“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.”
Lech Walesa
“Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”
James Bryce
“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Robert Frost
“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
William Faulkner
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
James Madison
“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”
George Bernard Shaw
