Independence Day

Happy July 4th!

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

~ James G. Blaine

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

~ Gloria Steinem

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

~ Barbara Jordan

This country will not be a good place for us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

~ Benjamin Harris, address to Congress, 1888

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

~ Winston Churchill

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

~ Arnold Toynbee

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

~ Robert Orben

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."

~ Vine Deloria, Jr.

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages, you're bilingual. If you can only speak one language, you're an American.

~ Author unknown

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of then could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song to The Beverly Hillbillies.

~ Dave Barry

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

~ e.e. cummings