Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
Independence Day Quotes
Despite the name, this is not a page about the American Fourth of July. It is built from the freedom and patriotism pages, and the writers who turn up come from all over: the Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, the Italian anarchist Bruno Filippi, Shakespeare, Anna Quindlen. De Burgos has a line about an invaded nation where today’s battlefield is independence.
A few entries are there because of a keyword, not a mood. Cervantes’s remark about not thrusting his nose into other men’s porridge (Don Quixote, 1605) is about minding your own business. If you want something for a speech, sort by source grade and skip the oddities.
Most quoted on independence day:
To give love is true freedom; To demand love is pure slavery.
Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.
"Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life."
The Democrats are the party of slavery; the Republicans are the party of freedom.
The people who were once owners of this soil ask you for their liberty, and law is liberty.
The freedom to create, the freedom to think differently, was unlimited.