Barack Obama - In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope
Dwight D. Eisenhower - The history of men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
George Washington - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America is another name for opportunity.
Peter Marshall - May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
Marquis de Lafayette - Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Lupita Nyong'o - Dreams are the foundation of America.
Hillary Clinton - Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America means opportunity, freedom, power.
John F. Kennedy - Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Albert Camus - Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Mac Thornberry - No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
James Bryce - Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Henry James - I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
J.S.B. Morse - I don't believe in the constitution because I'm American. I'm American because I believe in the constitution.
Fanny Lewald - That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it just for himself.
Ronald Reagan - Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Louis D. Brandeis - Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness.
Abraham Lincoln - Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Benjamin Franklin - Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Harry S. Truman - America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.
Eleanor Roosevelt - With freedom comes responsibility.
Paul Tsongas - America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Martin Luther King Jr. - From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
Nelson Mandela - For to be is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
William Faulkner - We must be not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
Mark Twain - Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Michelle Obama - The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.
Rosa Parks - I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be and wanted other people to be also
Thomas Campbell - The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree.
Barack Obama - In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
Bob Dylan - I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Gene Tierney - I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
Cody Horn - And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.
Cathy Guisewite - I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
Blake Anderson - I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.
Rob Lowe - I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.
Jeff Dunham - Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.
Ronald Reagan - Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
Camila Alves - The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
Bill Clinton - There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Christopher Hitchens - The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored
Frederick Douglass - The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
John Lydon - Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
Lawrence Tierney - Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.
Walter Lord - Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
John L. Phillips - There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
Bobby Sherman - One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.