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.

— Eleanor Roosevelt 1948
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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your fear to see your freedom.

— Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) 1971
General

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.

— Charles Manson 1994
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Freedom is the ultimate value.

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) 1985
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I believe in the American dream. I believe in taking chances.

— Evel Knievel 1970s
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The only way to achieve true freedom is to embrace your own madness.

— Werner Herzog 2016
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It's all about freedom.

— Kyrie Irving 2021
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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…

— Dmitri Mendeleev Late 19th century
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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 …

— Linus Pauling 1961 (Liberation magazine)
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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.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2018
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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.

— Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) Unknown
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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.

— Reed Hastings 2010
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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.

— Pele 1972.
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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…

— Adam Smith 1776
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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.

— Ayn Rand 1964
General

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

— Pythagoras c. 570-495 BCE (attributed later)
Justice & Rights

The American empire is crumbling from within. And it’s not just economic, it’s spiritual, it’s moral.

— Cornel West 2017
Money & Business

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.

— Otto von Bismarck Unknown, 19th century
Power & Leadership

America is ungovernable for us. He who serves a revolution plows in the sea.

— Simon Bolivar 1830
Political

The Republic of Turkey cannot be a country of sheikhs, dervishes, and disciples. The truest, most real order is the order of civilisation.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Post-1923
Political
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