(86 quotes found)
“There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation”
George Washington
“There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“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”
“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
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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
“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
“America is another name for opportunity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand?”
Walter Scott
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
J. Horace McFarland