Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Then join hand in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.
George Washington’s
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
– James Madison
Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven’s next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!
-James Thomson
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
– Abraham Lincoln
While you enjoy the feeling of independence, also do your part and work hard to cherish it.
Author unknown
Independence now and forever!
–Daniel Webster
In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.
–Phillis Wheatley
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw
Let every man do his duty, and be true to his country.
–Anonymous, rallying cry, Boston Tea Party
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~Elmer Davis