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:
God help the human race if you thugs are its fighters for liberty.
"Freedom begins when people recover the power to define themselves."
Mountains are (still) a space of freedom, where lawlessness reigns for the good of everyone.
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
As long as a love of liberty is emblazoned on our hearts, Jefferson lives.
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.