4th Of July quotes
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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it."
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
"It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing."
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
"Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved."
"July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion."
"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."
"The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. 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 shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more."
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
"If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?"
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"
