By VW Staff. Originally published at ValueWalk.
Restore your patriotism with these best 4th of July quotes and colloquialisms and know the significance and quintessence of this day.
Best 4th Of July Quotes And Sayings
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” – Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.” – Sinclair Lewis
“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” – Woodrow Wilson
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” – John F Kennedy
“America is another name for opportunity.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.” – President Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
“That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.” – John Burroughs
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority–literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.” Ignazio Silone
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” – President George Washington
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
“A good many elderly people are afflicted with dreadful headaches on the Fourth of July; but I suspect they don’t mind it very much, for in every puff of blue smoke that wreathes itself under their noses, they see a boy’s or a girl’s happy face.” – William H. Rideing
“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
“America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.” – Adlai Stevenson
“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.” – Paul Sweeney
“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
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” Albert Einstein
“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.” – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” – Bill Clinton
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
“We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grows old in spirit.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
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