“Freedom's natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Florence A. Jones
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
Louis D. Brandeis
“What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.”
George Pataki
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.”
Archibald MacLeish
“Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains”
Dwight David Eisenhower