“It's part of tradition to have fireworks for July Fourth and New Year's, so it's just really difficult to get people to stop using fireworks.”
Randy Jenkins
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
Mark Twain
“And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Lee Greenwood
“What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.”
George Pataki
“Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?”
Gordon Brown
