With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln – Second Inaugural Address
Saturday, March 4, 1865 – Famous Speeches

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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered … deeply, … finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
- George Washington

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
- Benjamin Franklin

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The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.
- Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian & political scientist, 1805-1859

On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from England and Democracy was born.

Every day thousands leave their homeland to come to the “land of the free and the home of the brave” so they can begin their American Dream. The United States is truly a diverse nation made up of dynamic people.

Each year on July 4, Americans celebrate that freedom and independence with barbecues, picnics, and family gatherings.

Through the Internet we are learning about and communicating with people of different nations, with different languages and different races throughout the world. Bringing the world closer with understanding and knowledge can only benefit all nations.
- Fourth of July Address from former President William Jefferson Clinton.

We invite all nations to celebrate with Americans online this Fourth of July.

America now stands as the world’s foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.
- Senator John Kerry

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
- John Dickinson, The Liberty Song of 1768

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
- George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945) US general

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
- Native American Proverb

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians are … the least understood and the most misunderstood Americans of us all.
- John F. Kennedy, 1963