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 clergy, they come in,
And say it is a sin,
That we should now begin
Our freedom for to win.
that strictly(and how)scienti
fic land of supernod
where freedom is compulsory
and only man is god.
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.