4th Of July Quotes - Page 2

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

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

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.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

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

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.