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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Happy 4th of July!
Here are some quotes worth noting.
- Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
- My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson
- May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster
- We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William Faulkner
- 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
- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not. ~John Adams
- It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. ~John Adams
