Independence Day Sayings
Celebrating liberty, freedom, and the American spirit — 771 sayings
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.
Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your fear to see your freedom.
I'm a revolutionary. I'm a rebel. I'm a freedom fighter. I'm everything you want me to be. And nothing you want me to be.
Freedom is the ultimate value.
I believe in the American dream. I believe in taking chances.
The only way to achieve true freedom is to embrace your own madness.
It's all about freedom.
Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these question…
My own estimate is that all of the people in the United States would be killed in a nuclear war, if we do not build fallout shelters, and that if we do build them and train the American people, all of the American people would be killed in a nuclear …
I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. If that saying doesn't convince you of the fatuousness of left vs. right labels, nothing will.
But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.
How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world? It's something we'll monitor, but Americans are somewhat self-absorbed.
There is no dictatorship in Brazil. Brazil is a liberal country, a land of happiness. We are a free people. Our leaders know what is best for [us], and govern [us] in a spirit of toleration and patriotism.
The most opulent nations, indeed, generally excel all their neighbours in agriculture as well as in manufactures; but they are to be envied, not on account of their opulence, but on account of their freedom, security, and the good administration of j…
The state is the most dangerous enemy of man's rights. It is the legal, institutionalized, and organized aggressor against his property, his freedom, and his life.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
The American empire is crumbling from within. And it’s not just economic, it’s spiritual, it’s moral.
The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbours, and to the east and west by fish.
America is ungovernable for us. He who serves a revolution plows in the sea.
The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.