He takes the strangest liberties —
But never takes his leave!
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:
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.
In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.
If social media can bring the sense of freedom, it can also bind people into delusional cults.
What was the use of talking about freedom if they had millions of people tethered to slums?
It was not in keeping with our American concept of freedom and the rights of citizens.
In the name of God. Peace be upon all the freedom loving people of the world
Lenin is best remembered for his famous retort, 'Freedom – yes, but for WHOM? To do WHAT?'