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 freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
Life and liberty are parts of each other and they are linked to our capacity of awareness.
“We should not give any room to say that we are suppressing media freedom,”
A freedom in retreat somewhere would make freedom less secure everywhere.
"We know how precious freedom is and how painful it is to be deprived of it."
We believe that the freedom to run for the office is for everybody, without restrictions.
Iranian Revolution is the symbol of the denial of freedom and republic.
Through suffering fate ennobles us. One thought, one call: Freedom!