(392 quotes found)
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Daniel Webster
“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.”
Hamilton Fish
“All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago”
Rudyard Kipling
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
