The empowered mind gravitates towards freedom and helps you break free of all limitations.
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:
Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.
Freedom is basically a spiritual longing/ That can only be filled by a spiritual power.
The spiritual freedom, once relished and tasted/ Is ready to give up everything.
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism?
Some people gain freedom by trading one form of bondage for another.
You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.
The more democratic freedom a people have, the less severe their internal political violence.