4th Of July Quotes

4th Of July Quote of the day

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

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

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.

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

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

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

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

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

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

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

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

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

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

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

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.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

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.