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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:
Fickle folk. A little hunger and stress and they forgot all about liberty.
the intoxicating drug of speed, and freedom to roam the earth.
We guard them. We punish them if we recover them. We chain them. And still they seek their freedom.
To any nation that stands for human liberties, they have an Ally in the United States.