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:
get vaccinated, wear masks, do social distancing
screw your freedom
Gun Talk: With Your Host, the Glib Sociopath Because, freedom. Duh.
Europe has received from the United States the imprint of Christianity in freedom. (p. 137)
"It was kind of her release away from protocol, it was her freedom
[Freedom of speech] isn't something somebody else gives you. That's something you give to yourself.
... as a much-banned author, I'm interested in freedom of speech.