Independence Day Sayings

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

Freedom is not an end. Freedom is a beginning.

— Benazir Bhutto 1989
Philosophical

Heaven is to me as definite a world as Europe or the United States.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1922
Philosophical

Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say no.

— Madonna Approx. 2000s (mentioned in a 2015 Reddit thread, likely from an older song)
Philosophical

The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk.

— Kim Jong-un 2018
Philosophical

As long as there are different nationalities, there will be patriotism. That feeling has to be rooted out from our hearts before the permanent peace is established. It should be replaced by love towards nature and scientific ideal. Science and invent…

— Nikola Tesla Approximate
Philosophical

Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which t…

— Hippocrates c. 5th Century BCE
Philosophical

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of thei…

— William Harvey 1628
Philosophical

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

— Charles Darwin Approximate
Wisdom

I blush to say it: Independence is the only benefit we have acquired, at the expense of everything else.

— Simon Bolivar 1829 or 1830
Wisdom

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

— Julius Nyerere Unknown
Wisdom

Maybe they have nothing else to do in America but to talk about me.

— Vladimir Putin Before 2023
Wisdom

The day will come when the telephone will be used by every household in America.

— Alexander Graham Bell c. 1870s
Wisdom

The telephone will be in every city, town, and village in the United States.

— Alexander Graham Bell c. 1870s
Wisdom

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

— Alexander Graham Bell 1891
Wisdom

The postulates are not self-evident, but they are necessary for the development of geometry.

— Euclid c. 300 BCE
Wisdom

I, too, sing America. I, too, am America.

— Langston Hughes 1926
Wisdom

The cow-pox protects the human constitution from the infection of smallpox.

— Edward Jenner 1798
Wisdom

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

— George Washington 1796
Wisdom

Let us be realistic. The atom bomb is a paper tiger. The United States is a paper tiger. All reactionaries are paper tigers.

— Mao Zedong 1957
Wisdom

The American people are not afraid of the future; they just want to know what it is.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932
Wisdom
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