Category Archives: July 4

        I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. This…

Not just a quote but the reference to our Independence document & Founding Fathers' John Hancocks - thank goodness!!!!! Many July 4th's within beautiful travel resort stay times thru out Upstate NY mountainous regions.

      I still love this one by Benjamin Franklin: I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that…

        I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom I see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth all the means. This…

          “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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from…

          Seeing today how our representatives in the federal government - from the President, to both houses of Congress, and the justices of the Supreme Court - I believe we would do well to remember the words of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote, “In questions of power, then, let no more be…

          Quote: "My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." --George Washington (1796)

"A Republic if you can keep it" is among one of my favorite quotes by Benjamin Franklin.  Meaning of course maintaining the balance between federal and state governments.  So often we see the Obama Administration stepping into areas better left to the states as noted under our 10th amendment.  The Federalist Papers for example, noted…

          No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States.  Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an  independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.…

          "Give me liberty or give me death!"  Patrick Henry My special memory of July 4:  Last year at beach with 5 generations of my family from my 99 year old grandmother to a 3 month old!