(82 quotes found)
“America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!”
Sir Walter Scott
“On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.”
Seth Low
“Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.”
Bill Clinton
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous”
“What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.”
George Pataki
“I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.”
George W. Bush
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind”
“I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to "Anarchy" or "Despotism"”
George Washington
