Quotes to Celebrate the 4th of July
 Wednesday, July 2nd, 2009  by Connie T.

We know you're looking for the best 4th of July quote to put on your Facebook page...yes, that is the modern world that we're living in, yet reading over some inspirational phrases about freedom is also a great way to reflect on how far we've come as a nation.

So, here are some of our favorites.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. George Washington.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Thomas Jefferson.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it...He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. Andrew Jackson.

Where liberty is, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep faith. Lyndon B. Johnson.

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.

In a remarkable series of coincidences, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two founding fathers of the United States and the only two men who signed the Declaration of Independence to become President, died on the same day: July 4. [Jefferson, on] the United States' 50th anniversary. Wikipedia.

Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. Samuel Francis Smith, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."

Of course, there are many, many more...feel free to add your faves in the comments section below!


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