4th Of July Quotes - Page 4

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

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.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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.

A good example is the best sermon.