4th Of July Military Quotes by Richard Henry Lee, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albert Camus, Samuel Adams, Elbert Hubbard, Elmer Davis and many others.
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
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.
Let freedom never perish in your hands.
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
