4th Of July Quotes - Page 7

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

Gos bless America, my home sweet home.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of the conscience; and it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.