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:
Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.
There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and freedom.
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.
It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.
The vulnerable points of Liberty now making her last stand on earth.