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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:

One of the beauties of Democracy is freedom of expression. The liberty to communicate how you see things. Your opinion may not count but you are entitled to it!

Bolaji Akinyemi

Education is the foundation of freedom.

Joseph Ki-Zerbo

The figures in my painting are fictional… freedom is a mothering figure to them

Ruth Ige

As a woman, for me, black joy means having the freedom to express myself authentically, without boundaries or the fear of hurting anyone

Kimatho Mafafo

Living without fear is beautiful—it allows for joy and freedom

Sphephelo Mnguni

If people have something to say about you, you should take it because we all have freedom of speech

Dane Paterson

Lovers of Freedom Will Be Free.

Hallie Beachem Brooks

* * as that dishonest victory
At Chæronea, fatal to liberty,
Killed with report that old man eloquent,
[Isocrates, the celebrated orator of Greece.]

John Milton

When Freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
And set the stars of glory there.

Joseph Rodman Drake

The God of Clement's Christian metaphysics is endowed with intelligence, will, freedom, power and goodness. (p. 32)

Battista Mondin

A true nation is held together not by any political creed but by patriotism.... For two centuries, men have died for America.

Pat Buchanan State of Emergency (2006)

The passion for freedom is on the rise.

Jimmy Carter Presidency (1977)

Contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike for example - Sweden?

Osama bin Laden

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

Tecumseh Debate at the Choctaw and Chickasaw Council (1811)

We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe.

John McCain Farewell statement (2018)

these pretended defenders of freedom of every nation of the world except Puerto Rico are mere bandits in the current history of mankind.

Pedro Albizu Campos Everybody is Quiet but the Nationalist Party (1950)

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Friedrich Hayek was the greatest political philosopher of liberty during the twentieth century.

Alan O. Ebenstein Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

Naomi Klein No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)

[W]e have long since learned that offering any resistance to any kind of a mob is incompatible with our great American tradition of civil liberties.

Curtis Yarvin

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