These Independence Day quotes will inspire you.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging Independence Day quotes, Independence Day sayings, and Independence Day proverbs.
Best Independence Day Quotes
- “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Freedom is never given; it is won.” ~ A. Philip Randolph
- “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“Independence is happiness.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
- “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” ~ Brigham Young
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“Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” ~ William Faulkner
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“Let freedom never perish in your hands.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” ~ George Washington
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“Your future depends on what you do today.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master’s bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“Of the people, by the people, for the people.” ~ Sun Yat-sen
- “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” ~ Erma Bombeck , 4th of July Independence Day quotes
- “Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
- “I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.” ~ Lee Greenwood
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“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” ~ Elmer Davis
- “Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.” ~ Bhagat Singh
- “A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous” ~ Albert Einstein , Independence Day quotes God
- “I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
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“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.” ~ Sri Aurobindo
- “India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” ~ John Dickinson
- “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland.” ~ Chandra Shekhar Azad
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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it” ~ Henry Ford
- “At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.” ~ Tobias Smollett
- “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” ~ James G. Blaine
- “Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu , Independence Day quotes liberty
- “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
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“All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago” ~ Rudyard Kipling
- “Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
- “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” ~ George Washington
- “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.” ~ Harry Connick, Jr.
- “In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the range of our communication, does not some burden lightened, some bond loosened, some yoke lifted, some labor better remunerated, some new hope for despairing hearts, some new light or new liberty for the benighted or the oppressed, bear witness this day, and trace itself, directly or indirectly, back to the impulse given to the world by the successful establishment and operation of free institutions on this American continent?” ~ Robert Charles Winthrop
- “We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.” ~ Lal Bahadur Shastri
- “Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.” ~ Ho Chi Minh
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“I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.” ~ Henry James
- “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.” ~ Albert Camus
- “Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.” ~ Subhas Chandra Bose
- “If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” ~ Max Muller
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“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.” ~ H. Allen Smith
- “The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic – have always blown on free men.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar
- “So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar
- “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” ~ Albert Einstein
Summary: Independence Day, a holiday celebrating the anniversary of a country’s independence from another country that ruled it in the past especially.
