(82 quotes found)
“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Lyndon B. Johnson
“A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.”
Curtis Billings
“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.”
Samuel F. Smith
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“[A safe Independence Day] would be a good psychological boost, but we need some fundamental news as well,”
Charles Payne