1. Only in America can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
2. Only in America are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
3. Only in America do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America do we use the word ‘politics’ to describe the process so well: ‘Poli’ in Latin meaning ‘many’ and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.
10. Only in America do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
SELECTED QUOTATIONS for Independence Day
Tomorrow is Independence Day in America, so these quotations are about FREEDOM.
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." — Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning." — Frederick Douglass
"The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave." –Samuel Adams
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve." — Abraham Lincoln
"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement." — Nelson Mandela
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." — J.S. Mill
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." — Abraham Lincoln
"Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." — Thomas Paine
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any
government, and to protect its free _expression should be our first
object." — Thomas Jefferson
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