Independence Day Quotes - Whittier

“We give thy natal day to hope,O Country of our love and prayer!Thy way is down no fatal slope,But up to freer sun and air...A refuge for the wronged and poor,Thy generous heart has borne the blameThat, with them, through thy open door,The old world's evil outcasts came.”John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 – 92) U.S. poet