Independence Day

Posted on | July 4, 2009 | No Comments

Happy birthday, America! Remember the circumstances that brought about your birth? Some quotes from a few witnesses to the events:

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine

The regulars are coming !
Paul Revere

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander Hamilton

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin (he tended to put words in God’s mouth ;)

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.
John Adams

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