Independence Day is a great holiday. It is the only time of year you can actually enjoy watching money burn. But more than this, it’s a celebration of our country, the greatest country on earth, and the people who have paid the price to keep it that way.
Picnics, vacations and fireworks are great, but they are just a benefit of living in the U.S. of A. The freedom to do these things and the people who made it possible are the things we really need to remember while we’re having a good time.
But this is not news. People have been saying things like this ever since our nation was born, and most of them say it much better than I do. So, for a special treat, I am yielding the floor to people who can really knock your socks off with their
patriotic words:

To retreat from any of the principles handed down by our forefathers, who shed their blood for the ideals we still embrace, would be a complete victory for those who would destroy liberty and justice for the individual. –Walt Disney

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
–Dwight D. Eisenhower

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things, the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which things nothing worth a war, is worse.
–John Stuart Mill (English philosopher and economist)

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. –Elmer Davis (News reporter and director of the Office of War Information during WWII)

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. –Adlai Stevenson

Happy Independence Day, everybody.