Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

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.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

I will rather b a poor brave man than being a rich coward