Worth Repeating -- Independence Day

National Guard Bureau

WASHINGTON, June 24, 1998 – "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
American Revolutionary leader
1736-1799

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
Thomas Paine
American author
1737-1809

"That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states... ."
Richard Henry Lee
American Revolutionary statesman
1732-1794

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
Benjamin Franklin
American statesman
1706-1790

"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."
John Dickinson
American politician
1732-1808