4th Of July Quotes - Page 5

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

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.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

America is too great for small dreams.

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.