“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.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Daniel Webster
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.”
Hamilton Fish
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.”
Colin Chapman
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
J. Horace McFarland