The Flag Day Poem by Lydia Coonley Ward Out on the breeze O'er land and seas, A beautiful banner is streaming. Shining its stars. Sple...

poem by Charles Sprague.  INDEPENDENCE A SOLEMN DUTY By Richard Henry Lee         The time will certainly come when the fated separation bet...

  "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien...

"Nor shall their story be forgot...  AMERICA RESENTS BRITISH DICTATION By Henry H. Carrington        During the agitation of 1765, conc...

THE FOURTH OF JULY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY By Phillips Brooks, July 4, 1880        To all true men the birthday of a nation must always be a sa...

"How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest."        "There are brief crises in which the ...

The Declaration of Independence: The Vision of a Free Society from the Jack Miller Center  "The United States is the only country with ...

OUR NATIONAL ANNIVERSARY BY A. H. RICE        We celebrate to-day no idle tradition - the deeds of no fabulous race; for we tread in the sca...

"Let Independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost." ADDRESS OF JOHN LATHROP (JULY 4 , 1796, Boston.)        In the war for...

Old Glory in the Sky. ADDRESS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (July 4, I793, Boston.)        Americans! let us pause for a moment to consider the situa...

Glorious Fourth postcard  ADDRESS OF JOEL BARLOW (July 4, I787, Hartford, Conn.)        On the anniversary of so great an event as the birth...

 ENGLAND AND THE FOURTH OF JULY BY W, T. STEAD (From The Independent.)        I wish with all my heart that we could adopt the Fourth of Jul...

The Fourth of July  by Charles Sprague To the sages who spoke, to the heroes who bled, To the day and the deed, strike the harp- ...

A boy scout at a 4th July parade in 1940. PATRIOT SONS by Samuel F. Smith The bright-eyed boys who crowd our schools. The kn...

TRUE HEROISM Let others write of battles fought On bloody, ghastly fields, Where honors greet the man who wins. And death the ma...

OUR PRESIDENTS (To the tune of "Yankee Doodle.") George Washington is number one, With whom begins the story; John Ada...

The Fourth of July   by Charles Leonard Moore Let be the herds and what the harvest brings ; Give to oblivion all that's sold and bo...

The Birthday of The Nation by Daniel Webster (From address delivered July 4, 1851, at laying  the cornerstone of the new wing of the C...

England and America by James Bryce        This is a memorable day to Englishmen as well as to Americans. It is to us a day both of r...

The Nation's Birthday by Mary E. Vandyne Ring out the joy bells ! Once again, With waving flags and rolling drums, We greet ...