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07/02/11 Weekend Grif.Net – Quotations for our Nation’s Birthday

07/02/11 Weekend Grif.Net – Quotations for our Nation’s Birthday

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any
price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any
foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
~John F. Kennedy

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
~Martin Luther King Jr.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home
of the brave.
~Elmer Davis

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral
fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to
institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
~Adlai Stevenson

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a
new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
~Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address”.

Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!
~Samuel F. Smith, “America”

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right
with America.
~Bill Clinton

We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic
not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken

Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
~ The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”