4th Of July Wishes Quotes

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

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

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

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

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

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

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

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.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

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

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

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 and women are created equal.

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.