Quotes About The 4th Of July

#1. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

Charles Bukowski

#2. What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Frederick Douglass

#3. I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#5. Damn, I can't wait until it get dark,
So I can light these fireworks up at the park,
And celebrate my independence,
It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.

Kam

#6. The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

David Letterman

#7. You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

Scott Walker

#8. It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

E. E. Cummings

#9. Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

John Quincy Adams

#10. Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

Mark Twain

#11. Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Alexander Hamilton

#13. In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

Benjamin Franklin

#14. If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

Richard Henry Lee

#15. Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

George Washington

#17. America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

Omar N. Bradley

#18. Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

Barack Obama

#20. It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

John Adams

#21. To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

James Madison

#23. We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

George Washington

#24. My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.

John F. Kerry

#25. The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Calvin Coolidge

#26. The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

Thomas Jefferson

#27. I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.

William Shakespeare

#28. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

Thomas Jefferson

#29. We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

John F. Kennedy

#30. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

George Washington

#31. Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

Joseph Hopkinson

#32. The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

#33. Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

Horace

#34. Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

Jules Renard

#35. In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

George Washington

#36. I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

Jim Gaffigan

#37. We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

John Seabrook

#38. It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

J. Horace McFarland

#39. Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Calvin Coolidge

#40. The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Dorothy Thompson

#41. On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it.

Paul Ryan

#42. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty.

George Washington

#43. A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms.

Richard Henry Lee

#44. In the full tide of successful experiment.

Thomas Jefferson

#45. I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

Wendell Willkie

#46. It's all flags, fireworks, family, food and fun
That's July Four
July Five, the fun is done
The fireworks are no more

John Walter Bratton

#47. July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

Mark Twain

#48. The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Aristotle.

#49. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Benjamin Franklin

#50. To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

Thomas Jefferson

#51. The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

George Washington

#52. One of the things we can be sure of over the July 4th weekend is that news reports will keep telling us how many of us are going to die in automobile accidents.

Andy Rooney

#53. Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

Adam Kokesh

#54. We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#55. Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

Erma Bombeck

#56. The greatest lesson we can learn from the past ... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

Frederick Chiluba

#57. July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

John Adams

#58. For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

James D. Watson

#59. The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

Theodore White

#60. The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

George Will

#61. This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars
an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Abraham Polonsky

#62. The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#63. Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue

George M. Cohan

#64. O, beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain ...

Katharine Lee Bates

#65. We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

James Madison

#66. July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Adam C. Engst

#67. The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

#68. We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Thomas Paine

#69. That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

Richard Henry Lee

#70. Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

Ulysses S. Grant

#71. Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

Thomas Jefferson