This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.  

—Elmer Davis

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.  

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.  

—John Burroughs

All we have of freedom, all we use or know — / This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.

—Rudyard Kipling

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

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.  

—Paul Sweeney

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.  

—William Faulkner

What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”  

—Marilyn vos Savant

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  

—Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.  

—Albert Camus

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.  

—Moshe Dayan