Tag: Independence Day

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
 
 
 
 

Quotes July 04, 2022

“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