4th Of July Quotes - Page 9

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

Damn, I can't wait until it get dark, So I can light these fireworks up at the park, And celebrate my independence, It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.

We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.