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:
America has meant so much to so many because we are the best hope of freedom on earth.
A personal creative vision cannot bloom without the freedom afforded by that trust.
How the earth sings as it spins!/Sings the lightness of its flight,/its freedom, its grace, its joy.
I believe in sex education and freedom though. It’s needed in Africa.
I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.
But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.
To roam
Giddily and be everywhere, but at home,
Such freedom doth a banishment become.
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.