Each month features an eye-catching photo and an inspiring quote.
JANUARY:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
FEBRUARY:
Star-spangled happiness and banner waves of pride.
- Cherishe Archer
MARCH:
America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.
- Aurora Raigne
APRIL:
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
- Benjamin Franklin
MAY:
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln
JUNE:
We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.
- Charles F. Browne
JULY:
Freedom's natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Dearest flag in all the world.
- Florence A. Jones
AUG:
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
- Elmer Davis
SEP:
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
OCTOBER:
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
NOVEMBER:
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
DECEMBER:
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
-James Garfield
