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:
The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.
"Women's liberation should develop with democratic values, equality and freedom."
Individual self-sovereignty is a load-bearing pillar on which liberty rests.
Moral liberty and intellectual objectivity constitute a priori man’s deiformity.
Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.
Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.
Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
A poem is free, and it shows its freedom by establishing its own principles.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.