4th Of July Quotes - Page 5

• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Patriotic

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Speech at Civil Rights Mass Meeting,Washington, D.C., 22 Oct. 1883

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• The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

  Thomas Campbell

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.215, Ardent Media

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Patriotic, America, People

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Thinking, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Men, Pay

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Wine, Brain, Independence

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Mom & Me & Mom”, p.77, Random House

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• 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!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• 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

  Freedom, Patriotic, Rights

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• Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

  Robert E. Lee

  Son, Abandon, Animosity

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• We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Opportunity, Race

  "The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.238, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

  Dick Cheney

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Taken

  "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Patriotic

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy”

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• Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Political, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.82

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Patriotic, America, Democracies Have

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Memorial Day, Freedom, Patriotic

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, Humorous

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• I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

  Lee Greenwood

  Memorial Day, Patriotic, Army

  Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

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

  Sun Yat-sen

  Patriotic, Democracies Have, People

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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

  Joseph Addison

  Freedom, Hands, Happy Independence Day

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• 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

  Diversity, Constitution, Founding Fathers Religion

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• Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Country, Patriotic, America

  1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

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• The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Liberty, Cornerstones

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