4th Of July Quotes - Page 14

• Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love You, Good Neighbor, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanac and Other Writings”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

  Benjamin Franklin

  People, Small Packages, Packages

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Read much, but not too many books.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Promise, Constitution Of The United States

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, Anger, Forgiving

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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

  Country, Patriotic, Men

  Thomas Paine (1877). “The crisis: a series of pamphlets in sixteen numbers, written during the American revolution”

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• Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

  George Washington

  Claims, Tribute, American Patriotism

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Business, Passion

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• Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

  Benjamin Rush

  Blessing, Liberty, Would Be

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

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• In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Mechanic, Professors

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, Jealous, Gun

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  Patrick Henry

  Fear, Passion, American Revolution

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• A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Men, Gun, Strong Arms

  Richard Henry Lee, Mercy Otis Warren (1962). “An Additional number of letters from the Federal farmer to the Republican, leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention: to several essential and necessary alterations in it; and calculated to illustrate and support the principles and positions laid down in the preceding letters. Together with Oberservations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian patriot”

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• Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

  Erma Bombeck

  Caring, Compassion, Volunteer

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• The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

  George Washington

  Character, Mean, Practice

  "American Masonic Register and Literary Companion", Volume 1, (p. 163), 1829.

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• But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.

  Thomas Dunn English

  Country, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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• If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

  Richard Henry Lee

  Nineteen, May, Pounds

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• Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Boys, Differences, Pleasure

  Poor Richard's Almanack, Aug. 1752

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• Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream.

  Neil Diamond

  Dream, Want

  Song: America, 1980

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• A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

  George Washington

  Fire, Government, Masters

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• Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Easy, Poor Richard, Hard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.40, Nayika Publishing

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• When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Resistance, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.133

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• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  Frederick Marryat

  New York, Pigs, Cities

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.

  Noah Webster

  Government, Law, Liberty

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