American Sayings in 2025

“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”

“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be let alone!’ There is all the difference.”

“We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.”

“The Holy Land is everywhere.”

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln.

“A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.” – Iowa

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.”

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

“If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.” – Arapaho

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. -Steve Jobs

“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.”

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

“Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.” – Lakota

“I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.”