July 4th Quotable Quotes

Quotatable July Fourth Quotes...

When signing the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock was rumored to have said, "There, I guess King George will be able to read that."

John Adams made a memorable prediction on July 2, 1776, just two days before America gained its independence: "The day will be most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival... It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade...bonfires and illuminations (fireworks) from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore."

"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 said of modern-day July 4th traditions.

And lastly, who could forget Abraham Lincoln's famous words, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."