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:
Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
[Translated]: The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
People have been taught to expect far more from government than from freedom.
George W. Bush did a incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.
To be full of things is to be empty of what matters. To be empty of things is to be full of freedom.
We must be vigilant in expanding and defending the liberties our democracy provides.
Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement.