Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day. Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity…….. John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) US diplomat and politician, 6th president of US 1825-1829 , July 4, 1837
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The fight had been the hinge – so one saw it – on which …
The fight had been the hinge – so one saw it – on which the large revolving future was to turn. Henry James
American author, on the significance of the battle of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
I would say to the House, as I said to those who …
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, ‘I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat’. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
Shared history is a big part of being in love. George McGovern …
Shared history is a big part of being in love.
George McGovern
January 2000
I don’t have any insight or understanding on anything about the …
I don’t have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it’s stupid — which is the one perspective that’s almost completely lacking in Washington. Dave Barry
Reason, December 1994
Man is constrained to be more or less social by his mode …
Man is constrained to be more or less social by his mode of propagation. George Santayana
Spanish born, American Philosopher/Writer, 1863-1952
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points …
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
(26th President of the United States, 1858-1919)
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, …
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. Thomas Paine
1737-1809.
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police …
The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an ‘equalizer.’ Egalite implies liberte. And always will. Let us hope our weapons are never needed – but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny… If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government à and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. Edward Abbey
The Right to Arms, 1979
Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt …
Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty. Ethan Allan