4th Of July Quotes - Page 8

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  I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

  Nathan Hale

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

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• I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

  George Washington

  America, Justice, Liberty

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious".

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• Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Freedom, Military, Individuality

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Wise, Money

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Patriotic, Commitment

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

  Stephen Colbert

  Father, Political, Independence

  "Stephen Colbert must be stopped!". edition.cnn.com. February 22, 2012.

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• After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Men, Weather

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1733

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The basis of a democratic state is liberty

  Aristotle

  Liberty, States, Democratic

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3476, Modern Library

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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Godly, Government

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• Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

  William Arthur Ward

  Generosity, Losing Yourself, Unusual

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• Freedom is not enough.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Freedom, Enough

  Howard University Commencement Address, delivered 4 June 1965, Washington, D.C.

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (1907). “The Franklin Year Book: Maxims and Morals from the Great Philosopher”

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• Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Strength, Hope, Peace

  Speech in House of Representatives, 12 Jan. 1848

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• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  George Washington

  Travel, War, Libertarian

  George Washington (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.367

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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• The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Women, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, Learning, Self

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• What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Motivational, Stars

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3125, Library of Alexandria

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• Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

  Chris Rock

  Holiday, White, African American

  Twitter post from Jul 04, 2012

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• On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Anniversary, Government

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 05, 2012

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• Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Education, Children

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.46, Chartwell

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• What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

  Frederick Douglass

  Conservative, Slave, July

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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