The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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:
We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.
We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.
I do play better when I have a sense of freedom on the pitch. Any time I’ve got that, I’m happy.
We want liberty, justice and freedom for all. When you do that, that’s when I’ll come.
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom.