Quotes about 4th-of-july
4th-of-july men safety
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. Woodrow Wilson
4th-of-july son abandon
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans! Robert E. Lee
4th-of-july patriotic illumination
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
4th-of-july sea america
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea! Katharine Lee Bates
4th-of-july race america
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. James Madison
4th-of-july estates trade
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july vices virtue
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
4th-of-july promise world
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
4th-of-july rain men
After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
4th-of-july speak poor-richard
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
4th-of-july men law
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.
4th-of-july boys differences
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
4th-of-july heart america
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity. Calvin Coolidge
4th-of-july liberty states
The basis of a democratic state is liberty Aristotle
4th-of-july slavery fats
Better to starve free than be a fat slave Aesop
4th-of-july patriotic democracies-have
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln
4th-of-july diversity constitution
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. Alexander Hamilton
4th-of-july liberty proportion
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. Daniel Webster
4th-of-july failure want
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
4th-of-july government people
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
4th-of-july media be-good
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. Albert Camus
4th-of-july rain blessing
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. Andrew Jackson
4th-of-july believe men
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.
4th-of-july weekend news
One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents. Andy Rooney
4th-of-july men good-man
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. Thomas Paine
4th-of-july government common-sense
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
4th-of-july medicine religion
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
4th-of-july opportunity political
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. Robert Kennedy
4th-of-july july celebrate
Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it. Ta-Nehisi Coates
4th-of-july government giving
To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments. Thomas Jefferson
4th-of-july independent self
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.
4th-of-july media government
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
4th-of-july heaven exclusion
I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.