About
15 years ago when I was going through Customs into Canada one day for my job as
a flight attendant with United Airlines, I was flipping through the Visa pages
in my passport just out of curiosity to see how many times I had crossed the
border from the time I had renewed my passport the year before.
The
format of the passport itself had changed since my last one had been issued ten
years before that new one. For
some reason, though, I had never paid any attention to the writing on the
pages. Turns out that “writing” is quotes
having to do with the United States on each opened double-page. I probably was only in a hurry to get through
the line and into the country during each previous visit. Never registered with me.
However,
as I read each of those quotes that day, I was really impressed with the
content of each one which reflected how most of our country USED
to feel about our freedom in America and our responsibility to the world as the
great nation we are.
I
share them here as we anticipate celebrating Independence Day once again on the
Fourth of July 2025. I am also including
a quote about The Book of Mormon’s warning to us
relative to our living in this free land.
As you read all of these impressive quotes about our country's freedom, I invite you--and myself--to do the following:
** Pledge once again your loyalty to the United States
** Always give gratitude for the blessings which we receive from God here in America on a daily basis
** Dedicate yourself to do whatever you can to help our country
remain free
We each are ONLY one. But we ARE One. What we do does count!
Wishing you a Happy 4th of July, however you plan to celebrate this year!
Love,
From
your fellow American and friend….
‘’Wherefore, this
land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they
shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be
a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into
captivity…” Book of Mormon 2 NE.1:7
…AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF
THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE
EARTH. Abraham Lincoln
Let every nation know,
whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the
survival and the success of liberty. John
F. Kennedy
The cause of freedom is
not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of
humankind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and
honest can repair. George Washington
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. Excerpt
from the Declaration of Independence
O say does that star spangled banner yet
wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of
the brave Francis Scott Key
Whatever America hopes to
bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of
America. Dwight D. Eisenhower
May God continue the unity
of our country as the railroad unites the two great oceans of the world. Inscribed on the Golden Spike, Promontory
Point, 1869
