“Independence Day: 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
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
– John Adams
“So let freedom ring from the prodigious …