July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams
Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended. — Chaim Weizmann
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. — Tony Snow
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. — Mac Thornberry
Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty. — Ho Chi Minh
I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue. — Samuel Adams
Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours. — Robert Ardrey
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. — Jose Rizal
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. — Joseph Rodman Drake
Happy Independence Day Quotes
We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
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
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free. — Rabindranath Tagore
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Manpower without Unity is not a strength unless it is harmonized and united properly, then it becomes a spiritual power. — Vallabhbhai Patel
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
The United States is the only country with a known birthday. — James G. Blaine
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas. — John Cornyn
Us Independence Day Quotes
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free. — John Taylor Gatto
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
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us. — Henry McNeal Turner
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. — Will Durant
The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers." — John Adams
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Dean [Devlin, Emmerich's partner on "Independence Day"] and I always said that we'd only do it when we had a really good story that excites us both, and we have the story written. And we've had it for a year and a half, two years. So we've been ready. — Roland Emmerich
The individual writer is a lonely figure in the wilderness of agents, editors, chain bookstores, and dwindling numbers of independents. The stronger MWA can be, the better it can serve us, and the more respect it can bring to bear in dealing with the problems most of us face every day. — Charles Todd
Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us. — Heber J. Grant
Independence Day Quotes
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers. — Bhagat Singh
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government. — Edward Abbey
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. — Bob Marley
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner
Of the people, by the people, for the people. — Sun Yat-sen
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone — Katharine Hepburn
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. — Naomi Wolf
American Independence Day Quotes
It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism. — J. Horace McFarland
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become. — Ronald Reagan
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. — Joe Baca
Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks. — Chris Rock
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice. — John Adams
I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. — Lee Greenwood
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country. — Rafael Cruz
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
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca
Independence Day Patriotic Quotes
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington
Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved. — Elbert Hubbard
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let freedom never perish in your hands. — Joseph Addison
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring! — Samuel Francis Smith
American Independence Quotes
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought. — Margaret Chase Smith
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. — John Quincy Adams
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. — Henry Morton Stanley
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it. — John Hancock
The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. — Margaret Chase Smith
First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. — John Avlon
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. — Patrick Henry
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality. — Michael McCaul
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile. — Samuel Eliot Morison
Inspirational Patriotic Quotes
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. — Benjamin Franklin
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. — Theodore Roosevelt
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution — Frederick Douglass
When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country. — Andrew Johnson
The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools. — Benjamin Rush
Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. — Theodore Roosevelt
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament. — Benjamin Rush
India Independence Day Quotes
The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence — Mahatma Gandhi
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain
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
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. — Rabindranath Tagore
In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined. — Mark Twain
It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of human ity. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. — Allen West
National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education). — Narendra Modi
Happy 4th Of July Quotes
In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree. — Thomas Paine
But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. — Thomas Dunn English
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support. — George Washington
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. — Gloria Stuart
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. — Benjamin Franklin
I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days. — Nelson Mandela
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. — Lady Gaga
From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of
inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of the vicious imperialist-orquestrated campaign to destroy the impressive gain made in the Cuban Revolution. Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro. — Nelson Mandela
Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day. — Martina McBride
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