Where Liberty dwells there is my Country! – Benjamin Franklin

“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” “Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.” “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”
– Erma Bombeck

“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

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
– Elmer Davis

“Let freedom never perish in your hands.”
– Joseph Addison

“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

“For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!”
– Daniel Webster