There’s the fifth, let’s not forget that.
\nYeh, I put the Flag up yesterday, I’m a big believer.
\nWhat are we celebrating here?, liberty?, democracy?
\nIn a sense, every day that we experience liberty,
\ndemocracy, should be celebrated. They haven’t been
\naround that long, you know, and as you look around the world
\nthey’re in short supply.
\nAnyway, I was sitting at the table when what the fuck,
\nthere’s my wife’s passport, is she going somewhere?
\nOh yes, some cruise to nowhere. I perused it.
\nPerhaps you should look at yours. What’s that you say,
\nyou do not have one? I suggest you apply while you can,
\nfor the way things are going, forget immigration,
\nyou may not be allowed to leave! Ha,ha!
\nAs for the passport, the inside front cover contains
\nthe last stanza of our national anthem.
\nScattered through the following pages are these quotes.
\n“and that government of the people, by the people,
\nfor the people shall not perish from the earth.”
\nAbraham Lincoln.
\n“We the People, Of the United States, in order to form
\na more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic
\nTranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
\ngeneral Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty
\nto ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
\nthis Constitution of the United States of America.”
\n“The principal of free governments adheres to the American
\nsoil. It is bedded in it, Immovable as it’s mountains.”
\nDaniel Webster.
\n“Let us set a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.”
\nGeorge Washington.
\n“We hold these truths to be self-evident:
\nthat all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
\ntheir Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among
\nthese are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
\nexcerpt from the Declaration of Independence.
\n“We have a great dream. It started way back in 1776,
\nand God grant that America will stay true to her dream.”
\nMartin Luther King.
\n“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
\nthat we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
\nsupport any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure
\nthe survival and the success of liberty.”
\nJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy.
\n“This is a new nation, based on a mighty continent,
\nof boundless possibilities.”
\nTheodore Roosevelt.
\n“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world,
\nmust first come to pass in the heart of America.”
\nDwight David Eisenhower.
\n“For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed
\ndesert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is
\nnot reached and the harvest sleeping in the unplowed ground.
\nIs our world gone? We say “Farewell”. Is a new world coming?
\nWe welcome it- and we will bend it to the hopes of man.”
\nLyndon B. Johnson.
\n“May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad
\nunites the two great oceans of the world.”
\ninscribed on the Golden Spike, Promissory Point, 1869.
\n“We send thanks to all the Animal life in the world.
\nThey have many things to teach us as people. We are glad
\nthey are still here and we hope it will always be so.”
\nexcerpt from the Thanksgiving Address, Mohawk version.
\n“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or sect,
\na party or a class- it is the cause of humankind,
\nthe very birthright of humanity.”
\nAnna Julia Cooper.
\n“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds
\nfor a look at new worlds—to look out from a higher
\nplateau than the last generation.”
\nEllison S. Onizuka.
\nHappy forever Fourth,
\nIslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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