Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.
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:
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
We will have to invest more in the security of our country to protect out freedom and democracy.
Real freedom can't be eradicated. It is our civic duty to continue to go to the streets.
It is true that liberty is precious — so precious that it must be rationed.
Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.