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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:

You know, local coaches like to give you freedom to express yourself, compared to European coaches, where sometimes you are scared.

Lucky Lekgwathi

Because of that freedom, we managed to control the game. The season was going well, so it was all about confidence.

Rahul Chahar

The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands and now we have to fight the enemy within, which is much more difficult but just as dangerous to liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks.

John Perry Barlow A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

He knew exactly what she meant: to get to a place where you could love anything you choose — not to need permission for desire — well now, that was freedom.

Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)

Bob: People came here for religious freedom, and we worshipped those boys.

Robert Patrick Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Martin Firrell Keep the Faith (2006)

Freedom has given us the control of 200,000 able bodied men, born and raised on southern soil. It will give us more yet.

Abraham Lincoln Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills (1864)

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Zygmunt Bauman

A country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom – or one where that freedom doesn’t apply to our bodies and our voices.

Sandra Fluke

The Communist Party is fully in charge and they give however much freedom they want to give and can take it away any time they like…

Martin Lee

I rise to discuss freedom, and our Constitutional duty to protect it. … I have been privileged to see firsthand how powerful and how fragile freedom is.

Liz Cheney Our Freedom Only Survives If We Protect It (2021)

If I speak that which I do not believe in, I would be exercising my right to freedom of expression, while suppressing my right to think.

Unity Dow

If fiction gave me the freedom to create on a grand scale, meditation gave me a compass to navigate my story.

Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa In Latina Authors and Their Muses (2015)

“I think that people aren’t really using forethought to see that when I fight for my kids and our freedoms, I’m also fighting for everybody else’s,”

Leigh-Allyn Baker

We were convinced that only Arab unity could get us out of the political lethargy in which we lived and that this could bring us freedom and democracy.

Latifa Jbabdi

The France of fraternity, equality, liberty belongs to me as much as to you'

Emna Belhadj Yahia

Tokyo was the first in freedom
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Marlène Canguio

What is love, but to hold dear without expectation? What is love, but first given devotion? What is love . . . But freedom.

Queen of Sheba

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