Freedom is more often lost by false assumptions than by the power of one's enemies.
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:
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.
The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.
"If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place."
The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free.