Quotes About July 4th 1776

#1. You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

Carolyn Hax

#2. In the full tide of successful experiment.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns

#4. To govern more securely some Princes have disarmed their subjects ... but by disarming, you at once give offence, since you show your subjects that you distrust them, either by doubting their courage, or as doubting their fidelity, each of which imputations begets hatred against you.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. Getting all sentimental PMSL!! Oh dear #LongingAgainInSilence

Ellie Williams

#6. Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

Epictetus

#7. Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.

Wes Welker

#8. The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

James Joyce

#9. 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

#10. We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!

Steve Camp

#11. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Eric Hoffer

#12. We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Olivier Theyskens

#13. It is hard to stop a hopeful soul from the pursuit of passion.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.

Chloe Thurlow

#15. ...there are women who devote themselves entirely to their families, their husbands and children, and give up cultivating their femininity. Mother rebelled against that paradigm...[Mr. Gregory's Mother]

Sveva Casati Modignani

#16. The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

Jean De La Bruyere