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:
To live means to struggle, the slave for freedom and the free man for perfection.
The best parent and guardian of liberty amongst men is truth.
The exercise of freedom consists in stripping oneself of one's own will.
No human endeavour requires freedom as much as creativity does.
Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.
Democratic freedom is a method of nonviolence and an antidote to war.
Freedom means the possibility to choose from a set of unfree options.
It is incredible to think about the places freedom can take you.