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:
My life and how I live it. My freedom, my choices. I don’t wanna live in a box.
Music has always been my way of expressing freedom and connecting with people.
"No one has told me I committed a crime. We have freedom of speech."
What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do
I write for a certain idea of freedom, truth and human dignity.
Zosime, cursed with serfdom from the womb,
Found Life in Death, and freedom in the tomb.
As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies?