(82 quotes found)
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Louis D. Brandeis
“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion”
Mark Twain
“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon”
George Washington
“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
Ricardo Flores Magon
“The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine”
James G. Blaine
“People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.”
“I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams”
Jessi Lane Adams
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
Abraham Lincoln