“What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.”
George Pataki
“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 David Eisenhower
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Daniel Webster
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees”