July Quotes - Page 5

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

A good example is the best sermon.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.