July 4th 1776 Quotes by George Santayana, Thomas Paine, John F. Kennedy, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas B. Macaulay and many others.
A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shinning sea!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shinning sea!
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
