Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Happy Independence Day, 4-H

Happy red, white, and blue to all of you from the Douglas County 4-H Office staff. Some thoughts:

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 nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus

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

Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. ~Elmer Davis

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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