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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:
Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. … It is a pagan virtue.
This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Christ, then, raised men from religion as a bondage to religion as a freedom.
Nature is good enough and grand enough and broad enough to give us the diversity born of liberty.