Happy Independence Day, America!

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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

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
-Woodrow Wilson

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

"...And I gladly stand up
. . next to you and defend her still today
Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God bless the USA"