Quotes on 4th Of July

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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.

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

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

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.