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:
“Work with patriotism, in line with the oath you took before God.”
Unless there is freedom of religion it is useless to speak of any other form of freedom.
The freedoms and values we enjoy in the United States, we owe to our veterans.
Over-dependence on oil has put an unpleasant bracket in our national economic freedom.
"Freedom is not merely independence; it is the responsibility to build a just society."
It is not merely our freedom that is at stake, but yours as well.