Quotes on Happy 4th Of July

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.