4th Of July Wishes Quotes by John Dickinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Horace McFarland, Thomas Jefferson, Gloria Stuart, Elmer Davis and many others.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
When I was little I thought, isn’t it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it’s July 4th.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
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.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
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.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
