Quotes on 4th Of July

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

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

Never confuse motion with action.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

A good example is the best sermon.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

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

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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

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