Quotes from American History- In Honor of Independence Day

Thank you to a contributor, I woke up with these in my inbox. Hope you all have a HAPPY and SAFE 4th of July.

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” ~Robert Kennedy

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” ~Harry Truman

“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” ~Clarence Darrow

“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” ~Patrick Henry

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal’.” ~Martin Luther King Jr

“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“What we need are critical lovers of America – patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.” ~Hubert Humphrey

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

“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 E. Stevenson

“Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation… in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice. When the world looks to America, America looks to you, and you never let her down.” ~Hillary Clinton

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” ~Frederick Douglass

“The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach. We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!” ~Franklin D. Roosevelt