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:
Many evils, no doubt, were produced by the civil war. They were the price of our liberty.
It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.
The EU was set up to protect freedom. It was the Soviet Union that stopped people leaving.