 Dwight David Eisenhower. Independence Day. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men, and so it must be daily earned and refreshed, else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. And this too, and we are so balkanized in our country today. Gerald Stanley Lee said, America is a tune and it must be sung together. E pluribus unum. What does that even mean? Out of many, one.