Quotes on 4th Of July

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

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.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

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

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.