(81 quotes found)
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
Thomas Paine
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand?”
Contributed by: Andy James
Walter Scott
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
J. Horace McFarland
“I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!”
Sir Walter Scott
“On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.”
Seth Low
“Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.”
Bill Clinton
“What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."”
Marilyn vos Savant