God Bless America

I love what it means to be American and I love to celebrate and decorate when a patriotic holiday rolls around! Howevah, this year I've been so busy with church activities,that the 4th of July has popped right up on me!

I did get a chance to play with my Mama's dishes this past week and had such a great time digging through all of her treasures.
 

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

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." 

Nathan Hale

"Oh, it's home again and home again, America for me! I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea. To the blessed land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."

Henry Van Dyke

"He loves his country best who strives to make it best."  

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Abraham Lincoln

"Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS…"

Thomas Paine

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

George William Curtis

Check out Americana By Candlelight to see how beautiful patriotism is!


God Bless America!

Holly

I'm joining in Tablescape Thursday over at Between Naps on the Porch. Stop by and visit Susan and see all the beautifl tablescapes.