4th of july Quote by John Adams

“the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should be governed,…

— Robert Middlekauff

“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Freedom is not a constitution, or the day it is declared, it's a long process and all of us, each one of us removing…

— Ari Sitas

“Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our…

— Anonymous

While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States.…

— Abraham Clark

“He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”

— Nathan Hale

“America was the land of liberty--and liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of others.”

— Milo Hastings

“The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I condemn the liberty that is found in words and I ask for true freedom that’s visible to all.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo