Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 7/4 - Liberty

Happy 4th. Here are some appropriate thoughts for the day, culled from allgreatquotes.com.
"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 F. Kennedy
"There, I guess King George will be able to read that." - John Hancock, On signing the American Declaration of Independence.
'This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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 human equality." - Adlai Stevenson
"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul." - Moshe Dayan
"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
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you." - Dick Cheney
"Liberty is the breath of life to nations." - George Bernard Shaw
"Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring!" - Samuel F. Smith
"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" - Thomas Jefferson
"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic -- have always blown on free men." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." - John Dickinson
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." - Bill Clinton
"And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me." - Lee Greenwood
"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." - The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776