Every Day is the Fourth of July

The quotes a person picks to, um, quote are oftentimes an insightful peek into a person's thought process. There seems to be two types of people in this country: those who love it and those who love raping it. Some love both but sooner or later you gotta pick one. Both claim to "love" their land.

Anyway, here are a few select quotes from the ages of true patriots:

"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
- George Washington

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."
- George Washington

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations."
- Thomas Jefferson

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
- Benjaman Franklin

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
- George Bernard Shaw

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."
- Abraham Lincoln

"So you want this fucking job?"
- John Kennedy to Barry Goldwater after being informed of the Bay of Pigs disaster