(86 quotes found)
“All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago”
Rudyard Kipling
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Contributed by: Andy James
Daniel Webster
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
Abraham Lincoln
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.”
Robert J. McCracken
“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
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
Louis D. Brandeis