4th Of July Quotes

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.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

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

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

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

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.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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.

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.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

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

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

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

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.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.