FOURTH OF JULY QUOTES

Independence Day USA Quotes, Happy 4th of July Quotes

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. Elmer Davis

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. Harry Emerson Fosdick

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine

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. Erma Bombeck

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

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

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. Curtis Billings

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. Thomas Paine

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Woodrow Wilson

Let freedom never perish in your hands. Joseph Addison

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while G*d is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. Lyndon B. Johnson

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

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. John Burroughs, Journal

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