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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.”
Contributed by: Andy James
Erma Bombeck
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
Elmer Davis
“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
“The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them”
Thomas Jefferson
“Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers. / I sing of maypoles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, / Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.”
Robert Herrick
“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
“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.”
Mark Twain
“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
Daniel Webster
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
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