America Quotes - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”…
Independence Day Quotes - Whittier
“We give thy natal day to hope,O Country of our love and prayer!Thy way is down no fatal slope,But up to freer sun and …
Freedom Quotes - Peter Gomes
“That rugged individualism that is the personification of our American sense of freedom, and which we celebrate on the …
Liberty - Independence Day Quote - Brown
“I know that upon 4th of July, our 4th of July orators talk of Liberty, while three million of their own country men ar…
July Fourth Quotes - Humor - Mark Twain
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. Thi…
Independence Day Quotes - Douglass
“The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, n…
Independence Day Quotes - Twain
“The business of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, th…
Independence Day Quotes - Benjamin Rush
“The Fourth of July has been celebrated in Philadelphia in the manner I expected. The military men, and particularly o…
Independence Day Quotes - Walt Whitman
“It is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small-arms!)”Walt Whitman (1819 – 92) U.S. poet and ess…
Independence Day Quotes - Frances Wright
“Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well – that is it…
Independence Day Quotes - Mark Twain
“The President, throned behind a cable locker with a national flag spread over it, announced the 'Reader,' who …
Independence Day Quotes - Benet
“There'll be ice-cream and fireworks and a speechBy Somebody the Honorable Who,The lovers will pair off in the kind…
Independence Day Quotes - James Riley
“Sing in the tones of prayer,Sing till the soaring soulShall float above the world's controlIn Freedom everywhere!S…