Happy Independence Day!

Happy Birthday America!! A few accolades from some great minds:

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” – Albert Einstein

“Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.” – John Gunther

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson

“America is another name for opportunity.  Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Territory is but the body of a nation.  The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.” – James Garfield

“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t.  You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.” – Mark Twain