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:
Distant or near,
in joy or in sorrow,
each in the other
sees his true helper
to brotherly freedom.
He doesn't understand I want the freedom to make my own mistakes.
Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere — LIBERTY!
Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"The more freedom is gained for women, the more we create a beautiful life."