July 4th 1776 Quotes - Page 3

• You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

  John Adams

  Trust, Mean, Thinking

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Successful, Government, Energy

  First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• . . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Success, Tides, Experiments

  First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801

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• We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, America, Grace

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• In the beginning, all the world was America.

  John Locke

  Patriotic, America, World

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 5, sec. 49 (1690)

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• The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Optimistic

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

  George Santayana

  Country, 4th Of July, Knowledge

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

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• These are the times that try men's souls.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Motivation

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Usa Patriotism, Revolution

  United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson), Woodrow Wilson (1918). “President Wilson ̓state papers and addresses”

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• 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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Learning

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• We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

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

  J. Horace McFarland

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

  Wendell Willkie

  Dream, 4th Of July, Believe

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

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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

  Katharine Lee Bates

  4th Of July, Sea, America

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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