Tag: July 4th

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
 
 

Quotes July 04, 2021

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
 
 
 
 
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
Henry James
 
 
 
 
The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is — that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
Condoleezza Rice
 
 
 
 
I don’t believe in the constitution because I’m American. I’m American because I believe in the constitution.
J.S.B. Morse
 
 
 
 
That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it just for himself.
Fanny Lewald
 
 
 
 
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
 
 
 
 
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
Mike Fitzpatrick
 
 
 
 
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness.
Louis D. Brandeis
 
 
 
 
Independence now and forever!
Daniel Webster
 
 
 
 
America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.
Harry S. Truman
 
 
 
 
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Paul Tsongas
 
 
 
 
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell L. Wilkie
 
 
 
 
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
 
 
 
 
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington