Independence Day
It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion, from one end of the continent to the other.—John Adams.
Our Country
A goodly heritage.—Psalm xvi.
Upon this land a thousand, thousand blessings.
Shakespeare, “Henry VIII.”
On thy brow
Shall set a nobler grace than now,
Deep in the brightness of the skies
The thronging years of glory rise.
—Bryant.
The materials by which any nation is rendered flourishing and prosperous are its industry, its knowledge or skill, its morals, its execution of justice, its courage, and the national union in directing these powers to one point, and making them all centre in the public benefit.
Edmund Burke.
It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration—the system that lets in all to participate in the counsel that are to assign the good or evil to all—that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.—Daniel Webster.
Perpetual Peace and Happiness to the United States of America!—General Washington’s Toast, Newburgh, New York, April 19, 1783.