Independence Day Quotes

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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
- Joseph Addison

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

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India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!
- Hu Shih

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You give me your blood and I will give you Independence!
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King

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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
- Mahatma Gandhi

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I love my freedom. I love my America.
- Jessi Lane Adams

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Liberty means responsibility.That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

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The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
- Woodrow Wilson

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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis

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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
- Robert J. McCracken

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A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
- Curtis Billings

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Better to starve than be a fat slave.
- Aesop

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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
- Saul Alinsky

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Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven’s next best gift, To that of life and an immortal soul!
- James Thomson

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We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
- John F. Kennedy

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

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India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
- Mark Twain

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We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
- Ricardo Flores Magon

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And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
- Lee Greenwood