American Sayings in 2024

“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.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

“All who have died are equal.”

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

“Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves.” – Assiniboine

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.”

“Our first teacher is our own heart.” – Cheyenne

“If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

“All dreams spin out from the same web.”

Timid men…prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty