Happy 4th of July

Here are 15 July 4 quotes and sayings:

1. "The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation." -- Woodrow Wilson

2. "Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

3. "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Paine

4. "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. "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

6. "Freedom's natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world." -- Florence A. Jones

7. "May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!" -- Daniel Webster

6. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." -- Benjamin Franklin

8. "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

9. "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." -- Abraham Lincoln

10. "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." -- William J. Clinton

11. "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- John F. Kennedy

12. "For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. "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.

14. "Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." -- John Dickinson

15.“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.” --Thomas Dunn English