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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.
My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun That's July Four July Five, the fun is done The fireworks are no more
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.