(82 quotes found)
“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
“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
Richard M. Nixon
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
Jimmy Carter
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
Contributed by: Andy James
John Dickinson
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
Thomas Paine
“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
“I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Abraham Lincoln