Happy Independence Day Usa Quotes:

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

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

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

source: Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

topic: Change, Freedom, Father, July 4th 1776, Liberty And Equality

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

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

- John Dickinson

source: "The Liberty Song" (song) (1768). "United we stand, divided we fall!" became a slogan of the American Revolution.

topic: Fall, 4th Of July, Hands, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4th 1776

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

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Family, Selfish, Lying, Pleasures Of Life, 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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

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

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

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

- Lee Greenwood

source: Song: God Bless The U.S.A, Album: American Patriot

topic: Army, Proud, Proud To Be An American, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4th 1776

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

The best things in life are free

- Luther Vandross

topic: Best Things In Life, Money And Happiness, Money Cant Buy Happiness, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, One Tree Hill Inspirational

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

- H. Allen Smith

topic: Monday, Morning, Men, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: 4th Of July, America, Needs, Independence Day Patriotic, 4th Of July Inspirational

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

source: Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

topic: Courage, Determination, Jobs, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

- Jan Struther

topic: Stars, Lakes, Air, Bursting, Cascade

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

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

- Romain Rolland

source: Romain Rolland (1960). “The life of Ramakrishna, 6th ed”

topic: Dream, Home, Men, Make In India, 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

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

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

- Joseph Addison

topic: 4th Of July, Hands, Independence Day Patriotic, Independence Day, July 4th 1776

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

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

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

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

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

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

- Brigham Young

topic: Motivational, Freedom, Independence, Independence And Freedom, India Independence Day

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 most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

- Mark Twain

topic: Men, Independence, India, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day

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

The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

- Billy Mays

topic: Best Things In Life, Money And Happiness, Money Cant Buy Happiness, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, One Tree Hill Inspirational

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

- Mark Twain

topic: Mother, Past, Men, Independence Day Patriotic, India Independence Day

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

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

- John Burroughs

topic: Independence, Independence Day, Blank, July 4, Orators

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Retirement, Children, Responsibility, Happy Children, Indian Independence Day

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

topic: Science, Discovery, Taught, Make In India, India Independence Day

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

- Ho Chi Minh

topic: Single, Being Single, Independence, Inspiring Independence Day, Happy Independence Day

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

- Maya Angelou

topic: 4th Of July, Wine, Independence, Draught, 4th Of July Wishes

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Government, People, Earth, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Memorial Day, Freedom, America, Inaugural, Inaugural Speech

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

Of the people, by the people, for the people,

- Sun Yat-sen

topic: People, Independence And Freedom, Inspirational Freedom, Inspirational Patriotic, Inspiring Independence Day

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Country, Inaugural Speech, Independence Day Patriotic