Quotes about 4th-of-july
4th-of-july election free-elections
Leave us to our free election. William Shakespeare
4th-of-july liberty request
This liberty is all that I request. William Shakespeare
4th-of-july liberty cry
Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty! William Shakespeare
4th-of-july teeth gains
Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom. William Shakespeare
4th-of-july boast
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else. William Shakespeare
4th-of-july thinking america
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. Jack Kerouac
4th-of-july liberty happy-independence-day
Liberty is the breath of life to nations. George Bernard Shaw
4th-of-july patriotic successful
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
4th-of-july conservative slave
What to the Slave is the 4th of July. Frederick Douglass
4th-of-july blood rights
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. Felix Frankfurter
4th-of-july caring compassion
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. Erma Bombeck
4th-of-july food kids
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. Erma Bombeck
4th-of-july america usa-patriotism
If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish. Geraldine Ferraro
4th-of-july patriotic america
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit. Hubert H. Humphrey
4th-of-july fighting destiny
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. Patrick Henry
4th-of-july blessing men
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Patrick Henry
4th-of-july patriotic america
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. Patrick Henry
4th-of-july independence arms
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence. Nathan Hale
4th-of-july men political
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. Nelson Mandela
4th-of-july government law
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government. Noah Webster
4th-of-july america mechanic
In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category. Noam Chomsky
4th-of-july loss years
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth. Mark Twain
4th-of-july eight gone
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. Mark Twain
4th-of-july wish firsts
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. George Washington
4th-of-july america justice
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty. George Washington
4th-of-july men abolition-of-slavery
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. George Washington
4th-of-july political may
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. George Washington
4th-of-july army soldier
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. George Washington
4th-of-july heart attachment
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. George Washington
4th-of-july character mean
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. George Washington
4th-of-july government mankind
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. George Washington
4th-of-july past errors
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. George Washington
4th-of-july army numbers
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. George Washington