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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.

Random quote on Independence Day

Most quoted on independence day:

We should support woman both mentally and morally, pointing her the way to freedom, which she must naturally find for herself.

Milly Witkop What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want? (1922)

Children require simple food, early hours for retiring, and abundance of sleep, as well as freedom from social and religious excitements.

Mary Livermore

Will advance by having no opinion protected from discussion and agitation, by having the greatest possible freedom of thought, of speech, and of the press.

Gertrude Kelly State Aid to Science (1887)

Strong freedom ensures that some actions are represented as directed to ends which are not merely mine, but which are also freely adopted or pursued by me.

Paul Grice

Religious freedom is not free. It comes at a cost. You Americans have been given the gift of religious freedom. Protect it, and never take it for granted.

Vlado Košić

Anyone can exist, dance and love as they are with full freedom.

Jackie Queens

The moon is like freedom: it is in the sky and at the bottom of the well.

Antonio Delfini

What I want for myself and for all African women, is autonomy, choice and freedom, health, and happiness.

Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki

What good is our freedom and independence when so many of our fellow citizens are struggling

Joseph Boakai

It’s very difficult to adapt a book into a film, especially a fictional book where I have the freedom to do whatever I want to do with the characters.

Dudu Busani-Dube

I do not like being labelled as a born-free because I've always questioned whether the freedom is a reality

Zulaikha Patel

If you survive, tell the people that the women of the Philippines did their part in making the ember sparks of truth and liberty alive till the last moment.

Josefa Llanes Escoda

You don’t want to express yourself, but with local coaches, they always give you freedom.

Lucky Lekgwathi

If there’s one place where the body can truly find freedom, it’s in art, and as artists, we possess the power to restore its dignity.

Zoulikha Bouabdellah

To anticipate & prevent disastrous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.

George Washington

Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!

Percy Bysshe Shelley Hellas (1821)

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.

John F. Kennedy

It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.

Martin Amis Fear and loathing (2001)

Now this very contentedness in the possession of a dead liberty is characteristic of the so-called State, and, as I have said, it is not a good characteristic.

Henrik Ibsen

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

Karl Popper On Freedom (1958)

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