Happy 4th Of July Quotes:

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

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

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

source: Thomas Paine, “Liberty Tree”

topic: Patriotic, Light, July, July 4th 1776, Liberty Tree

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

- James G. Blaine

topic: Country, 4th Of July, United States, July 4th 1776, Inspiring Independence Day

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

- Elmer Davis

topic: Veterans Day, Courage, Memories, India Independence Day, Independence Day

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

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

- George Orwell

source: "The Freedom of the Press" (1945)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Freedom, Freedom Of Expression, Political Freedom

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

topic: Inspiring, Freedom, 4th Of July, July 4, July 4th 1776

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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

topic: 4th Of July, Kids, Gun, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Freedom, Land, Failing, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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

topic: Freedom, Flower, 4th Of July, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

- Wendell Willkie

topic: Dream, 4th Of July, Believe, 4th Of July Inspirational, 4th Of July Wishes

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

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

topic: 4th Of July, Blow, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: 4th Of July, Liberty, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day, Indian Independence Day

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Motivational, Education, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Individual Independence

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

- Moshe Dayan

source: Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

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

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom, Inaugural Speech, Independence And Freedom

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

- Peter Marshall

source: "Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness: An American Muslim Perspective" by Zainab Chaudry, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2016.

topic: Freedom, Thinking, Opportunity, Happy 4th Of July

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Pain, Freedom, Fear, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Clever, Independence And Freedom, Man And Superman

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: 4th Of July, Revolution, American Revolution, Independence Day Patriotic, 4th Of July Inspirational

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

- Henry Ford

topic: Independence, Makin Money, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, False Hope

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

- John Adams

source: Letter to Hezekiah Niles, 13 Feb. 1818

topic: Religious, Real, War, American Revolution, 4th Of July Wishes

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Kings, Pride, Government, Happy 4th Of July

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

- Richard Henry Lee

source: Resolution presented to Continental Congress, 7 June 1776

topic: 4th Of July, Independent, Political, Colony, 4th Of July Military

From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: New York, Freedom, Mountain, Soul Force, July 4th 1776

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

topic: July, I Have A Dream Speech, Hampshire, Soul Force, July 4th 1776

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Peace, Social Democracy, Power Corruption

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Charity

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

- Samuel Francis Smith

source: "America" (song) (1831) See Archibald Carey 1; Martin Luther King 14

topic: 4th Of July, Mountain, Sides, July 4, Inspiring Independence Day

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Mean, July 4, Inspiring Patriotic