July Quotes - Page 4

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!