Quotes July 04, 2023

“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
Marquis de Lafayette
 
 
 
 
“Happy 4th of July! This country of immigrants, religious refugees, outcasts and dreamers has come a long way. Let’s keep going.”
Ellen DeGeneres
 
 
 
 
“Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry, and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people.”
George Washington
 
 
 
 
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
Woodrow Wilson
 
 
 
 
“Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes.”
Samuel Sherwood
 
 
 
 
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
Arthur Ashe
 
 
 
 
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
 
 
 
 
“Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn’t block traffic.”
Dan Rather
 
 
 
 
“America’s a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.”
Louis C. K.
 
 
 
 
“Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!”
Harry Connick Jr. as Captain Jimmy Wilder, “Independence Day”
 
 
 
 
“Just found out that every Fourth of July, the British celebrate, ‘We Dodged a Bullet Day.’”
Conan O’Brien
 
 
 
 
“We shall go wild with fireworks … And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness.”
Natsuki Takaya
 
 
 
 
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
 
 
 
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
Peter Marshall
 
 
 
 
“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”
Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”
 
 
 
 
“America is another name for opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson