Quotes on Independence Day

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

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

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

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

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.

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.

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

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

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

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.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

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.

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