Happy Fourth of July!
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."- Abraham Lincoln
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."- James Madison
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."- Patrick Henry
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace." -Benjamin Franklin
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."- Oscar Wilde