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America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
~Adlai Stevenson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
~Daniel Webster

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

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
~Hamilton Fish

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
~Author Unknown

I love my freedom. I love my America.
~Jessi Lane Adams

Without freedom, no one really has a name.
~Milton Acorda

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
~Benjamin Franklin

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -
This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
~J. Horace McFarland

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
~Simone de Beauvoir

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
~James G. Blaine

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
~Thomas Macaulay

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
~John Dickinson

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
~William Faulkner

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
~Thomas Jefferson

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.” ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
~Paul Sweeney

From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
~Samuel F. Smith, “America”

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
~Hubert H. Humphrey

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
~Moshe Dayan

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.
~Lee Greenwood

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.
~Sallust

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.
~Author Unknown

Freedom is not enough.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths. ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

Freedom is never free.
~Author Unknown

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
~William J. Clinton
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Today is also bring your pet to work day!

To those celebrating both, Happy pet day of summer work!





A life without love is like a year without summer.
– Swedish Proverb

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
– James Dent

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
– St. Francis of Assisi

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
– Russel Baker

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
– Joseph Wood Krutch

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
– William Law

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
– Kahlil Gibran

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
– Erma Bombeck

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
– Rupert Brooke

Celebrate Summer - Sun drenched days and starlit nights…
– Gooseberry Patch

Colored scents that fill the air as drowsy insects hum around in the meadow is the place of secret magic where nature alone renews itself.
– Kate Bergquist

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
– Sam Keen

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?
– Bev Adams

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
– Sydney Smith

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
– Robert Bridges

I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see the stars. The breeze sings astonishingly like Ella and the wind rumbles in a Louis way. My friends and I dance under magic skies.
– Author Unknown

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
– John Vance Cheney

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
– L. M. Montgomery

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
– Bern Williams

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
– Aldo Leopold

In summer, the song sings itself.
– William Carlos Williams

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
– John Cheever

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
– Hal Borland

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
– Thomas Browne

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
– Author Unknown

No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
– Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode

Oh, bring again my heart’s content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
– William Allingham

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
– Barry Cornwall

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
– Anton Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
– John Lubbock

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
– Warren Buffett

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
– Henry James

Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods” are clothed in their most elegant array.
– Author Unknown

Summer is delicious. [rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
– John Ruskin

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
– Ada Louise Huxtable

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
– Francis Thompson

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
– James Russell Lowell

The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog - a summer night’s serenade.
– Michael P. Garofalo

The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
– Francis Thompson

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
– Wallace Stevens

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
– Celia Thaxter

To believe in life is to believe there will always be someone who will water the geraniums.
– Flavia

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
– Emily Dickinson

We are much more likely to experience a sense of plenty when we are relaxed.
– SARK

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
– Jane Austen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
– Gertrude Jekyll

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
– James Russell Lowell

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That’s because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
– Roy Blount Jr.

Who has not dreamed a world of bliss on a bright, sunny noon like this?
– William Howitt

Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.
– Andrea Willis

You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.– Author Unknown

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Husband and dog missing … 25 cents reward for dog

Wife and dog missing … 25 cents reward for dog

If you want the best seat in the house … move the dog

Life is just one table scrap after another

My dog’s not spoiled … I’m just well trained !

Recycle bones here

A boy’s best friend is his dog

A man’s best friend is his dog

A house is not a home without a dog

Dogs are really people with short legs in fur coats

Dogs are people too

Be tuff ! The “dog days” of summer can be wuff !

Chasing your tail gets you nowhere … ‘cept back to where you started

Family and friends welcome. Fleas are not.

Friends Fur-ever

When please doesn’t work … Beg !

Wipe your paws

Wipe your paws or else

Beware of attack puppy

I love dogs

A spoiled rotten dog lives here

Spoiled rotten dogs live here

“In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog.”

“Maybe you’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places. A dog will treat you better than anyone you’ll meet at happy hour. Trust me. I’ve been to happy hour.”

” … work can wait another 30 minutes. There are more important things to do. Like throwing sticks.”

“A dog will quickly turn you into a fool, but who cares? Better your dog than your boss. I’m a fool for my dog and proud of it.”

“Dogs are better than children. Even my friends with children say that. As a dog friend of mine likes to say, children are for people who can’t have dogs.”

“A barking dog never bites.”

“Barking up the wrong tree.”

“Dog in a manger.”

“Let sleeping dogs lie.”

“Tail wagging the dog.”

“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”

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Dad’s Aloysius, Frank and Harry, Happy Father’s Day!





A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
~ Knights of Pythagoras

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
~ Author Unknown

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~Author Unknown

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
~Albert Camus





To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
~ Simone De Beauvoir

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don’t disappoint him.
~ Alan Beck

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
~ Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
~ Julie Benz

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night.
~Margaret Atwood

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~Harmon Killebrew

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
~Michael Foot

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