4th Of July Quotations | Page 3

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

A good example is the best sermon.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, 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.

The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

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.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Freedom is not enough.

Let us not seek the Republican answer.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

America is too great for small dreams.

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.