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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend.
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.