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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.

Random quote on Independence Day

Most quoted on independence day:

I think you will have to be very, very careful to have the regulations that will protect freedom.

George Soros Interview with Mark Shapiro (2000)

Freedom of expression is guaranteed by our constitution.

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom BBC World interview (2003)

Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.

Newton Lee

“This feels right. It feels like it digs right into where I need to be … This is becoming my new freedom… I feel like I’ve finally cracked it, girl!”

Rihanna

Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression

Carl Rogers Carl Rogers on Personal Power (1977)

Composition allows the artist the greatest possible freedom, so that his subjectivity can express itself, to a certain degree, for as long as needed.

Piet Mondrian

As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.

James Bovard

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.

Ai Weiwei

America is more than just a land mass between two oceans, America is an ideal. A simple, yet powerful ideal. Freedom matters.

Ted Cruz Speech at the Republican National Convention (2016)

[Women] were not trained for freedom at all, but for its categorical opposite—dependency.

Colette Dowling The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence (1981)

The progress we have achieved and the freedom we enjoy should not make us forget the conflicts surrounding our region

Jeannette Kagame

Patriots all, who have forgotten or deserted the higher patriotism with which they had lived and from which their art drew its strength.

Anna Strunsky The Revolutionist and War (1915)

I have the freedom to express my sexuality without fear of arrest or vigilante execution. I am indeed privileged…

Bandy Kiki

To me, the goal is in the here and now, constantly trying to act as if it’s (liberation and freedom) already here.

Cindy Milstein Interview (2022)

The ‘love’ and ‘peace’ by which we swear are threadbare with abuse As freedom and equality, Democracy and the like

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty

You deserve freedom. You owe it to yourself. You are anything but selfish whenever you decide to stand up for yourself!

Myriam Ben

“Political regimes may be based on electoral politics, but the rule of law, minority rights, freedom of the press, and other liberal protections are in danger.”

Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar

Every dwelling must have a private outdoor space . . . to have more pleasure, more freedom

Anne Lacaton

GTE Labs was really great. It was like Bell Labs; there was a lot of freedom to follow your interests

Herbert Winful

I love freedom more than life itself.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara

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