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:
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
For freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.