Honor America's Birthday July 4th with Famous Quotes

With America's 233^rd birthday around the corner, it seems appropriate to enjoy some of the more famous quotes made about her:

Star-spangled happiness and banner waves of pride. Cherishe Archer

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe

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

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

Time has only proven one thing, and that is that you can't ruin this country even with politics. Will Rogers

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that 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

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Arnold Toynbee

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. John Updike

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis

Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me!

I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea

To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,

Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Don't forget to stop every once in a while and actually thank God for blessing America - he gets a lot of requests, you know. Carrie Latet

Sources: www.quotegarden.com/america.html, www.quotationcollection.com/tag/America/quotes , www.FamousQuotes.com