America, the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees, beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam-
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
-Katherine Lee Bates
In the duty of nations, as well as of men, to own
their dependence upon the overruling power of
God and to recognize the sublime truth announced
in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history,
that those nations only are blessed whose God is
the Lord.
-Abraham Lincoln
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your
liberties; write its precepts on your heart and
practice them in your lives. To the influence of this
Book we are indebted for the progress made, and
to this we must look as our guide in the future.
-Ulysses S. Grant
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the
same time.
-Thomas Jefferson
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrim's pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God our King.
-Samuel Francis Smith
God bless America!
In God we trust!
May freedom ring!
God bless you all!
Happy Birthday, America!
14 years ago
