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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
- Erma Bombeck
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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 nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
- Dick Cheney
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Better to starve free than to be a fat slave.
- Aesop
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
- Woodrow Wilson
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw