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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:
Freedom is the many faced god and queerness is its first born.
The Church has always supported the freedom of her children, wherever they are.
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty.
They brought out LSD to control people, and what they did was give us freedom.
The blessings of liberty must be earned and renewed by every generation -- including our own.
There must be an abridgment of what are called English liberties.
Work-democracy adds a decisive piece of knowledge to the scope of ideas related to freedom.