Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Jack Kerouac

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

John F. Kennedy

Let us not seek the Republican answer.

John F. Kennedy

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

John F. Kennedy

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

George M. Cohan

Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

John Burroughs

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Katharine Lee Bates

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

Katharine Lee Bates

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

Jules Renard

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Patrick Henry

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

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

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.

Noah Webster

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.

Noam Chomsky

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

Nathan Hale

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

Nelson Mandela

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

Mark Twain

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

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.

Geraldine Ferraro

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

John Quincy Adams

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

Marilyn vos Savant

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.'

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Maya Angelou

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

Henry A. Kissinger

We are not just any nation.

John Adams

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

John Adams

Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

John Adams

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.