HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!

The Constitution of the United States of America
Preamble:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-Thomas Jefferson

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
-Abraham Lincoln

"When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything."
-Harriet Tubman

"A man who will not labor to gain his rights, is a man who would not, if he had them, prize and defend them.
-Stephen Douglas

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell."
-Harry S. Truman

"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."
-Martin L. King

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
-John F. Kennedy

"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
James E. Carter

"There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America."
-Bill Clinton

-Panhandle Truth Squad