Independence Day Sayings

The whites of the island are French, and they have the right to enjoy their liberty.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

I think of myself as an American writer.

The one thing that can't be taken from us is our freedom to choose how we will react to whatever we are given.

Freedom lies in being bold.

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give freedom to a caged bird.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Freedom is not a gift; it is a conquest.

God's ultimate discrimination rests solely on the freedom and sovereign will of God.

It is a great misfortune to be too much alone, and, above all, to be without some one to whom one can talk with perfect freedom.

I'm a Buddhist, and I'm a Jew, and I'm a gay man, and I'm a poet, and I'm an American, and I'm a human being. I'm all of those things.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

What more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty?

I have a great love for freedom, and I would rather die than be a slave.

Freedom is a strong seed planted in a great need.

The road to freedom is a hard one, but it is worth the struggle.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.