1. The United States is the only country with a known birthday.     James G. Blaine

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

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

4. This nation will remain the land of the free so long as it is the land of the brave.     Elmer Davis

5. 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

6. 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

7. America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government and have equality.     Adlai Stevenson

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

9. The winds that blow through the wide sky in these moments, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic have always blown on free men.     Franklin D. Roosevelt

10. My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth can enjoy!     Thomas Jefferson