Happy Fourth!!!!

To all of our friends and family... have a safe and happy Fourth of July.

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ~ Patrick Henry

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. ~ Thomas Jefferson

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. ~ Voltaire

Michael W. Smith: There She Stands