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Happy 4th of July! Enjoy some of our favorite patriotic quotes!
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- “God Bless America! Land that I love!” – Irving Berlin
- “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” – Nathan Hale
- “Give me liberty, or give me death!”Patrick Henry
- “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” Benjamin Franklin
- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” Thomas Paine
- “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” George Washington
- “My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” Thomas Jefferson
- “May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!” Daniel Webster
- “The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.” Woodrow Wilson
- “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” Elmer Davis
- “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” William Faulkner
- “For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Freedom is never free.” Author Unknown
- “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” William J. Clinton
- “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln
- “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” Lee Greenwood
- “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” John Dickinson
- “Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” Louis D. Brandeis
- “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” Albert Camus
- “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “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.” Erma Bombeck
- “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.” Adlai Stevenson
- “All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.” Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
- “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 D. Eisenhower
- “The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” – James G. Blaine
- “Let freedom never perish in your hands.” Joseph Addison
- “We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” Robert J. McCracken
- “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
- “I love my freedom. I love my America.” Jessi Lane Adams
- “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” George Bernard Shaw
- “It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.” J. Horace McFarland
- “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.” Thomas Paine
- “From every mountain side, Let Freedom ring.” – Samuel F. Smith, “America”
- “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy