Isn’t freedom even this pig skin, which roasted like this crunches so nicely under the teeth?
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 only way out for China is to eradicate feudal relics and achieve freedom and equality.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.