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 implies space; it means having the power and enough room in which to act.
The stars of heaven are free because
In amplitude of liberty
Their joy is to obey the laws.
"… keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others."
Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?
I am afraid of a new barbarism which is killing
man's freedom.
I’m a writer and I think that freedom of speech is essential if we are going to have literature.