Independence Day Sayings

Celebrating liberty, freedom, and the American spirit — 771 sayings

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approx. 1930s
Justice & Rights

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
Justice & Rights

If the lack of freedom is considered normal, there will be no complaints.

— Tokugawa Ieyasu 17th century (approx. 1603-1616)
Justice & Rights

United States will come to talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope.

— Fidel Castro 1973
Political

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

— Sun Yat-sen Approx. 1920s
Justice & Rights

When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong, To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice our personal freedom.

— Sun Yat-sen Approx. 1920s
Justice & Rights

Turkey's political leadership may have decided to lick the Americans in a particular place.

— Vladimir Putin 2015
Political

I'm not a criminal. I'm a freedom fighter.

— John McAfee Unknown
War & Conflict

The internet is the last bastion of freedom. We must protect it.

— John McAfee Unknown
Justice & Rights

The freedom of thought and speech must be preserved in all circumstances.

— Max Planck Unknown
Justice & Rights

I am an atheist, a republican, and a lover of mankind.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley 1811
Love & Relationships

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

— George Washington 1783
Justice & Rights

A people who are possessed of the spirit of liberty are invincible.

— George Washington 1778
Justice & Rights

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

— Andy Warhol c. 1970s-1980s
Art & Creativity

Buying is much more American than thinking.

— Andy Warhol 1975
Power & Leadership

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

— Abraham Lincoln 1861
Art & Creativity

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

— Abraham Lincoln c. 1860s
Love & Relationships

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

— Winston Churchill c. 1940s
Justice & Rights

There are two kinds of peace: one is the peace of slavery, and the other is the peace of freedom.

— Mao Zedong c. 1930s
Justice & Rights

I am not a magician. I am a human being. I have my weaknesses, I have my faults. But I am trying to do the best I can for the American people.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt 1938
Power & Leadership
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