Life On A B-I7

Day #318

Great American Quotes

That Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
—The Constitution

We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776, and God grant that America will be true to her dream.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

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, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
—John F. Kennedy

This is a new nation, based on a mighty continent, of boundless possibilities.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.
—George Washington

The principle of free governments adheres to the American soil. It is bedded in it, immovable as its mountains.
—Daniel Webster

Whatever American hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say “Farewell.” Is a new world coming? We welcome it —and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
—Lynden B. Johnson

Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
—Ellison S. Onizuka

May God continue the unity of our country as this railroad unites the two great oceans of the world.
—Inscribed on the Golden Spike, Promontory, Utah, 1869

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or class —it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.
—Anna Julia Cooper

All of these quotes are found in the United States of America Passport Book. They are inspirational and provide living guidance for all of us that call ourselves Americans.

Eisenhower said it best. Our hearts must not be swayed by empty rehetoric, rather, we must hold to the dream as expressed by Martin Luther King.