July Quotes

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

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.

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

I usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

I play the radio and moon about...and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

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

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

But I would rather be with you, somewhere in San Francisco on a back porch in July, just looking up to Heaven, at this crescent in the sky

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.