“You must perform your responsibilities with patriotism, integrity and accountability.”
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:
I am not a pacifist. I am for freedom, democracy, and human rights.
I have the freedom to dance to the music I hear, regardless of whether people can hear it too.
People in Monrovia were used to this kind of freedom of expression, freedom of movement.
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
Imitate him if you dare,
World-Besotted Traveler; he
Served human liberty.
Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains
"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."
The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.
The big advantage of being a chemistry major was the freedom to be tasteless.