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:
Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear;
The sweetest freedom is an honest heart.
Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
It is not on the ruins of liberty that we may in the future build justice.
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.
Freedom is the expression of my truest self/ The cry of being deepest being!
When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.
There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.
The freedom of an individual merges in the freedom of all and serves the freedom of all.
Anyone who’d volunteer for alien domination doesn’t really deserve to have his or her freedom.