1914 In Poetry
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They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
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They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
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At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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— The "Ode of Remembrance" -
An ode taken from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen",
First published in The Times of London
in September of this year.
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Aberdeen Washington holds a Splash celebration every 4th of July. This silent film has pictures from 1914 of that celebration.
The first celebration was held in 1905.
Quotations for U.S.A. Independence Day!
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent
that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home
of the brave. ~Elmer Davis
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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~Woodrow Wilson
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
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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
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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
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. ~Curtis Billings
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Freedom's natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world. ~Florence A. Jones
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This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. ~Lyndon B. Johnson
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal
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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Author unknown, sometimes attributed to M. Grundler
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Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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
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May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~Daniel Webster
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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken
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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
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
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I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams
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Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda
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Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin
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All we have of freedom, all we use or know -This our fathers bought for us
long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905
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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire
of patriotism. ~J. Horace McFarland
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The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic -
have always blown on free men. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~Simone de Beauvoir
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The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine
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"HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA"
"May God Bless Tne USA!"
