July 4th 1776 Quotes:

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801

topic: Success, Tides, July 4th 1776

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

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

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

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

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

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, 4th Of July, July 4th 1776, Inspirational Patriotic

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

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

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

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

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 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

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

- John Adams

source: Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776

topic: 4th Of July, Declaration Of Independence, Deliverance, 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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

topic: Peace, Freedom, Inspiration, Separate Peace, 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

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

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

- Walter E. Williams

topic: Men, Government, Consent, Independence And Freedom, Secession

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

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

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

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

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

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

- Patrick Henry

topic: Sweet, Freedom, Business, American Revolution, Individual Liberty

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

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

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

- Elbert Hubbard

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

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Country, Men, America, Inaugural Speech, July 4

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

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

- Samuel Francis Smith

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

topic: Father, 4th Of July, Pride, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776)

topic: God, Support, Independence, July 4th 1776, Inalienable Rights

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspiring, Education, Patriotic, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

- George William Curtis

source: George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

topic: Loyalty, Country, Memorial Day, Independence Day Patriotic, July 4

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

- Sinclair Lewis

source: 1930 Interview in Berlin, 29 Dec.

topic: Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic, July 4th 1776, American Patriotism

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

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

- Dick Cheney

source: "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

- Emma Lazarus

source: "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

topic: Tired, Giving, Empathy, July 4th 1776, Statue Of Liberty

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

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776)

topic: Respect, Nature, Law, July 4, July 4th 1776

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776)

topic: Life, Unalienable Rights, Inalienable Rights, July 4th 1776, Deism

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

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

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

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

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