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:
For the unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.
Cause the heart that betrays itself willingly Is like a nation that trades freedom for stability
“If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.”
“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”