4th Of July Quotes - Page 6

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Grateful to Almighty God for the blessings which, through Jesus Christ Our Lord, He had conferred on my beloved country in her emancipation and on myself in permitting me, under circumstances of mercy, to live to the age of 89 years, and to survive the fiftieth year of independence, adopted by Congress on the 4th of July 1776.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

Freedom is from within.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?