Quotes July 04, 2025

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
“Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.”
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
John Adams
 
 
 
 
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
“Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
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
 
 
 
 
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 
 
“The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!”
Patrick Henry