Happy Birthday!

-What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

- We hold these truths to be self-evident ...

-Oh beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life

-"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." - George Washington

-Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!

"Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us har of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments." - John Adams

"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." - Preamble to the United States Constitution

"Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming. Emerson was right: America is the Land of Tomorrow." - Ronald Reagan

-America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw

-Blest with vict'ry and peace,
may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made
and preserved us a nation!