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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Sep 17, 2025
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.
The best things in life are free - and $19.95.
The best things in life are free
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
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.
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.
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.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
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.
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.
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.
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.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
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.