Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Rush

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Calvin Coolidge

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Abraham Lincoln

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Aristotle

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Alexander Hamilton

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

David Letterman

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

Albert Camus

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

John Bunyan

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Swami Vivekananda

Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance.