“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.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Daniel Webster
“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.”
Hamilton Fish
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
Abraham Lincoln
