Let us not seek the Republican answer.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day. . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.
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.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
America! America! God shed His grace on thee.
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.
Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. . . it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.