July 4 Quotes

I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

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.