4th Of July Military Quotes

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

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

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

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

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.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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

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

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

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

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 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.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

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

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.