Independence Day Quotes - Benet

“There'll be ice-cream and fireworks and a speechBy Somebody the Honorable Who,The lovers will pair off in the kind darkAnd Tessie Jones, our honor-graduate,Will read the Declaration.That's how it is. It's always been that way.That's our Fourth of July, through war and peace,That's our Fourth of July.”Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 – 1943) U.S. poet and short-story writer