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In the beginning, all the world was America.
Sep 10, 2025
. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
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.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee.
These are the times that try men's souls.
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.
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.
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!
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
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.
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.
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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.
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.