Patriotism in America....Happy 4th of July!

 July 4th, 2010

On July 4, 1776, a group of inspired, intelligent, courageous men signed America’s Declaration of Independence, a document drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776. This Declaration is one of our nation’s most cherished symbols of individual liberty and it is indisputably Jefferson’s most enduring monument to this country. And from that hot, humid day in July, 234 years ago, the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness in America has never been the same.

I love America, and what she strives to represent, with every fiber in my body. She is by no means perfect, but compared to others, she is a shining gem.

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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."

Happy birthday, America, and may God bless our troops.

4th of July

 Glenn Beck on Lady Liberty @ CPAC 2010

Listen to how Glenn interprets Lady Liberty's Poem at about 2:20 of the video:

 

Rise Up - INSPIRED BY GLENN BECK Jeremy Hoop [Alternate Ending]

Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd! ORIGINAL!!!

  

President Reagan's Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference - Feb. 18 , 1983 

 
 Red Skelton's Pledge of Allegiance

 

Cactus Cuties - National Anthem at the Capitol Building

 

 CC's Battle Hymn of the Republic - video by Lubbock Independant School District

 

 Independence Day Tribute to the US Armed Forces

 

 God Bless America (Patriotic Slideshow)

Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) by Toby Keith

Faith Hill National Anthem

Whitney Houston's National Anthem

Marvin Gaye sings the National Anthem

Quotes about America and being an American (from Frugal Cafe')

A handful of quotes about America and being an American…

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
~ Carl Sandburg

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

Europe will never be like America. Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
~ Margaret Thatcher

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
~ Sinclair Lewis

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
~ Walt Whitman

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
~ J. Bartlett Brebner

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

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
~ Adlai Stevenson

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
~ John F. Kennedy

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
~ Felix Frankfurter

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
~ George F. Will

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
~ Louis D. Brandeis

To me, being an American means feeling safe.
~ Currielene Armstrong

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
~ Paul Sweeney

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~ Hamilton Fish

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
~ Gary Hart

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them.
~ Lily Tomlin