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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:
The people are driving forward to freedom. I am quite confident that liberation will come!
Freedom is the possibility of isolation... If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.
He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.
Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.
We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.
I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.