Independence Day Sayings

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

My life has been a struggle for liberty.

— Garibaldi Published posthumously
General

I am a soldier of liberty.

— Garibaldi 1860
General

It is easier to make a constitution than to make a pudding.

— Bismarck Undated
General

The virtue of the citizen is relative to the constitution.

— Aristotle c. 350 BCE
General

To be truthful (honest) in all declarations is therefore a sacred unconditional command of reason, and not to be limited by any expediency.

— Immanuel Kant 1799
General

The civil constitution in every state shall be republican.

— Immanuel Kant 1795
Political

Freedom is the property of the will to be a law to itself.

— Immanuel Kant 1785
General

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

— Francis Bacon 1625
General

Freedom is the being of man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre 1943
General

It is in the recognition of the ambiguities of existence that the human being can achieve his freedom.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1947
General

The only way to be truly free is to accept the responsibility of one's own freedom.

— Simone de Beauvoir 1947
General

The greatest danger to freedom is not oppression, but indifference.

— Simone de Beauvoir unknown
Political

My role—and that is all I claim—is to show that things are not as self-evident as one might believe.

— Michel Foucault 1979
General

The greatest danger for totalitarianism is freedom of thought.

— Hannah Arendt 1951
General

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

— Albert Camus 1957
General

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

— Rosa Parks 1995
Justice & Rights

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

— Malcolm X 1965
Justice & Rights

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

— Malcolm X 1964
War & Conflict

I have never heard of anything so insolent as to propose to the English Parliament to give up their liberty by their own consent.

— Montesquieu c. 1720s-1750s
Political

The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind, arising from the opinion each person has of his safety.

— Montesquieu 1748
Political
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