Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Happy July 4th!


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, 1863

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson

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, The Gettysburg Address, 1863

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for those quotes. I really needed to read them and be reminded.

Karla said...

Awesome quotes! Very touching :)