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:
Liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.
[...] legal curbs on corporate freedoms are needed to protect citizen's freedom.