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Check our our complete list of 4th of July Jokes and the Top 10 4th of July Jokes! We also have a list of Top Quotes by the Founding Fathers!
- “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
- “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “Give me liberty, or give me death!” Patrick Henry
- “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” Benjamin Franklin (Top Ben Franklin Quotes)
- “These are the times that try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” Thomas Paine (Top Founding Fathers Quotes)
- “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.” Ben Franklin (Top Ben Franklin Quotes)
- “The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “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 (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!” Daniel Webster
- “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Ben Franklin (Top Ben Franklin Quotes)
- “The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.” Woodrow Wilson
- “A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” Ben Franklin (Top Ben Franklin Quotes)
- “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
- “The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “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
- “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “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
- “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “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
- “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “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
- “Most bad government has grown out of too much government.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “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
- “An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “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 - “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” Thomas Paine (Top Thomas Paine Quotes)
- “The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Education Quotes)
- “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “In a government bottomed on the will of all, the…liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.” Thomas Jefferson (Top Thomas Jefferson Quotes)
- “It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)
- “Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant & a fearful master.” George Washington (Top George Washington Quotes)