The 5th of July

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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

Hope everybody had a fantabulous, star-spangled 4th of July, and spent a moment reflecting on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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