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July Quotes

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Benjamin Franklin (1907). “The Franklin Year Book: Maxims and Morals from the Great Philosopher”

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II (1999). “Celebrate the Third Millennium!: Facing the Future with Hope”, Servant Publications

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

"The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

"The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

"Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness: An American Muslim Perspective" by Zainab Chaudry, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2016.