03/11/2020
AMERICA!!!! ...it used to mean something....A BIG part of it was our HUMANITY, our love and care for others..it was our “gift” to Mankind ....the fact that you could count on the USA to do the right thing no matter what it cost us, no matter the effort or the burden...we KNEW we were Blessed by God to live in this great and amazing Country....this Beautiful City on a Hill, a Beacon to the World and the envy of the world...We knew we led the world....they looked to us and wanted to be like us...they wanted to BE US....we were from all 4 corners of the world and yet we were ONE....We were AMERICANS!!!!... we were the leaders of the free world and there was ALWAYS a seat at our table...
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
―President George Washington
“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."
—President John F. Kennedy
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
--President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
—Founding Father Samuel Adams
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
—Founding Father Benjamin Franklin
“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
—President Abraham Lincoln,
Gettysburg Address
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
--Harry S Truman
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
-- Ronald Reagan
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
-- Rosa Parks
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
-- Malcolm X
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Founding Father Patrick Henry
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”
—President John Adams
