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Image of John Burroughs
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
- John Burroughs
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Image of Calvin Coolidge
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
- Calvin Coolidge
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Image of Calvin Coolidge
Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.
- Calvin Coolidge
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Aristotle
The basis of a democratic state is liberty
- Aristotle
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Harry Emerson Fosdick
He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Image of Patrick Henry
There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
- Patrick Henry
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Image of Alexander Hamilton
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.
- Alexander Hamilton
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Jack Kerouac
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
- Jack Kerouac
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John F. Kennedy
Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of John F. Kennedy
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
- John F. Kennedy
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Image of Hubert H. Humphrey
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Henry A. Kissinger
We are not just any nation.
- Henry A. Kissinger
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Image of Abraham Lincoln
But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Image of Robert E. Lee
Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!
- Robert E. Lee
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Image of John Adams
July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.
- John Adams
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Image of John Adams
Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
- John Adams
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Image of John Adams
It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
- John Adams
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Image of James Madison
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
- James Madison
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Image of John Quincy Adams
Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.
- John Quincy Adams
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Erma Bombeck
Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation’s compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.
- Erma Bombeck
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Image of George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- George Washington
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Image of Aesop
Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
- Aesop
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Image of Ulysses S. Grant
Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.
- Ulysses S. Grant
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