4th July Quotes
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4th July Quotes & Sayings
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
— George Washington
It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and funThat's July Four
July Five, the fun is done
The fireworks are no more — John Walter Bratton
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
— Calvin Coolidge
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.
— William Shakespeare
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty.
— George Washington
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
— John Adams
The Swami Vivekananda lectured for the first time from a public platform on September 11th, 1893 and on July 4th, 1902, he passed away.
— Swami Vivekananda
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
— Benjamin Franklin
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
— Benjamin Franklin
Leave us to our free election.
— William Shakespeare
Gos bless America, my home sweet home.
— Irving Berlin
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
— Thomas Jefferson
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
— John Dickinson
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
— Dennis Miller
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
— John F. Kennedy
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.
— Nathan Hale
My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.
— John F. Kerry
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!
— Joseph Hopkinson
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain ... — Katharine Lee Bates
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.
— Adam C. Engst
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
— James Madison
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
— John F. Kennedy
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
— Richard Henry Lee
If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic.
— John Madden
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
— Benjamin Franklin
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
— Frederick Douglass
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
— J. Horace McFarland
We are not just any nation.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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.
— Benjamin Franklin
A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
— Richard Henry Lee
The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
— Dorothy Thompson
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.
— William Shakespeare
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
— George Bernard Shaw
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
— Benjamin Franklin
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.
— Benjamin Franklin
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
— Seneca The Younger
America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.
— Max Lerner
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
— Robert E.Lee
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
— Joseph Addison
What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
— Frederick Douglass
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
— Wendell Willkie
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
— Thomas Jefferson
In the full tide of successful experiment.
— Thomas Jefferson
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
— Gloria Stuart
Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.
— William Shakespeare
The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
— Theodore White
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
— Ulysses S. Grant
America! America!God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shinning sea! — Katharine Lee Bates
The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
— David Letterman
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.
— Omar N. Bradley
There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.
— Benjamin Franklin
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
— John F. Kennedy
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
— George Washington
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
— Benjamin Franklin
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
— Thomas Jefferson
The basis of a democratic state is liberty
— Aristotle.
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.
— Geraldine Ferraro
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
— George Washington
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
— George Washington
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past ... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
— Frederick Chiluba
This liberty is all that I request.
— William Shakespeare
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
— Benjamin Franklin
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.
— Benjamin Franklin
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.
— Ricardo Flores Magon
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
— John Burroughs
Read much, but not too many books.
— Benjamin Franklin
Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
— William Shakespeare
Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue
— George M. Cohan
In right and service to their noble country.
— William Shakespeare