“The things that the flag stands for are created by the experiences of a great people.”
Woodrow Wilson · Flag Day address, 1917
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Wisdom Quotes
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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to set an example of modest, unostentatious living.”
Andrew Carnegie · The Gospel of Wealth, 1889
“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.”
John F. Kennedy · Address to the nation, 1962
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman, 1903
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King Jr. · Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963
“It is the love of country that has lighted and keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.”
J. Horace McFarland
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
George Washington · Letter to James Madison, 1788
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”
Frederick Douglass · Speech, July 5, 1852
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
Thomas Jefferson · Declaration of Independence, 1776
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Benjamin Franklin · 1755
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.”
John Adams · Letter to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776
“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
Bob Marley
“Nations grown corrupt love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”
John Milton · The Ready and Easy Way, 1660
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln · Letter to Henry L. Pierce, 1859
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”
Patrick Henry · Speech to the Virginia Convention, 1775
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw · Man and Superman, 1903
