Happy 4th of July!

[karlsnooks]

Happy Fourth of July.

When I grew up this was required reading and we believed in these principles.

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[solarmystic]

Happy Fourth of July Americans!

I'll just leave this saying here (reposted from the quotes thread) from one of your great founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"

 

[A Guy]

Happy Birthday America! Another milestone in our history:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth.

A Guy

 

[Tews]

Happy 4th of July!

 

[Joan Archer]

And the same to you Tom and all our American friends.

 

[DocBrown]

 

[linnemeyerhere]

Happy Birthday to Our Great United States!

 

[Borg 386]

Wishing everyone a Happy & Safe 4th (Don't get crazy with the fireworks....)

 

[LittleJay]

I'll just leave this saying here (reposted from the quotes thread) from one of your great founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"

Old Ben was a very wise man. It's just too bad that his words have fallen on deaf ears.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Have a great 4th of July but be safe out there!

 

[Brink]

Happy 4th of July everyone.

 

[boohbah]

All the best y'awl

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[pebbly]

Happy Independence Day to all our Friends on the other side of the pond

 

[Layback Bear]

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My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~Thomas Jefferson[/FONT]

 

[M1GU31]

Happy fourth of July folks,have fun with those fireworks and barbecue and all with family and friends and here is a lil somthin somthin

 

[Borg 386]

This picture was taken in 1918.