I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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:
Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race.
Every man of every color and description has a natural right to freedom.
Corporations’ freedom detracts from our freedom, and it’s a zero-sum game.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
This is not right, this is not the path of freedom for our country.
Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.
National freedom is as important as economic freedom or the freedom of the individual.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.