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:
“Nonviolence is opening to the existence, freedom and development of every being”
Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government.
It is the fact that the longing for freedom is not just embedded in every true soul's heart.
"Freedom of speech is something that we must respect. That's what makes good governance,"
Our freedom is our ethnic identity and our ethnic identity is Kalabari Ijaw, not Biafra.
I live for the freedom of my people, and I shall die for Africa's freedom.