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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
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.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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.
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.
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.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
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 have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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.
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
My heart beats red, white, and blue. And with patriotism it aches Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights But in particular, cupcakes
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to suffer.