There has never been a freedom, of course, that someone has not proved ingenious enough to abuse.
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:
If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere.
Now, that [the Norwegian model] would enable us to retain an element of freedom of movement
"Violence and freedom are the two endpoints on the scale of power."
Of what does freedom of the human spirit consist, that quality on which I place so much stress?
You don’t want to be a freedom fighter every time you enter a job.
I fled to get my voice back. I fled to get my mind back. I fled to get my freedom back.
We are ready to die for our freedom, but we are not prepared to kill for it.