4th Of July Quotes

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

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.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

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.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

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.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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.

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.