But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
America is too great for small dreams.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
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.
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.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.
