Happy 234th Birthday to our beloved United States of America and may God Almighty continue to bless this extraordinary land of the Free and Home of the Brave! May we always cherish the freedoms for which our forebears fought and never relent in fighting against their usurpation by any foe the liberties with which the Divine Author of the Universe has blessed us in this land.
"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!" ~ Daniel Webster
“Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty”. ~ Samuel Adams
"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?" ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." ~ John Adams
"How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." ~ George Washington
"When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir." ~ Thomas Paine
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson (inscribed around the inside of the dome of the Jefferson Memorial)
"The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." ~ George Washington, 1789
"Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!” ~ John Adams and John Hancock
"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience...without God there is a coarsening of the society; without God democracy will not and cannot long endure...If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." ~ Ronald Reagan
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." ~ Mark Twain
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a patriot." ~ Mark Twain
"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." ~ John F. Kennedy
“I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American." ~ Daniel Webster
"We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come." ~ Samuel Adams, 1776 (at the signing of the Declaration of Independence)
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