Today’s The Day

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Thomas Jefferson

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Erma Bombeck

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan

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

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
Hamilton Fish

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
Daniel Webster

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Today marks the second anniversary of Dr Sanity’s blog.

Inasmuch as real freedom and liberty and freedom are efforts of individuals within a community, on behalf of a community, we suggest that sometime today, you read her three part series on narcissism- and consider her words carefully. Freedom is the collective expression of a free- and healthy nation. Nations that are not free are not healthy.

Jim Lynch, of bRight and Early, has an interesting July 4 post:

If blogs and bloggers existed in 1776 what would they have written? In a sense, except for the technology, they did exist. Consider the pamphlets of Thomas Paine, the correspondence of Benjamin Franklin and the writing of Thomas Jefferson. One of the keys to selling the idea of independence to colonial America was the written word. The series of Common Sense pamphlets written by Thomas Paine achieved a distribution that would, when adjusted for the change in population, thrill any present day “pamphleteer/blogger”.

I will continue to add to this throughout the day as others choose to participate. There may also be some entries “invented” in the style of the blogs we all enjoy.

There are some interesting posts by some very good bloggers- worth a look, for sure.