Fourth Of July Inspirational Quotes

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• 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

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.239

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

  John Dickinson

  4th Of July, Fall, Patriotic

  "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

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• Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Freedom, Father

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

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

  Herbert Hoover

  Inspiring, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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• 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

  4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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• This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

  Elmer Davis

  Country, Courage, Veterans Day

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

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• 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

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Flower

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• From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Freedom, July

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  George Washington

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.178

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

  Dick Cheney

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Taken

  "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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• 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

  Pain, Freedom, Fear

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow

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• The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

  James G. Blaine

  Country, 4th Of July, America

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

  Samuel Francis Smith

  4th Of July, Mountain, Sides

  "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

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• This land is your land, this land is my land

  Woody Guthrie

  Land, Redwoods, Trespassing

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

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• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.358, Best Books on

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

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• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Destiny, Government

  First Inaugural Address, New York, N.Y., 30 Apr. 1789

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