Independence Day Sayings

I never intended to become an illustrator or a writer. I was an artist. I intended to become a great American artist.

I desire to live and to fight, to work and to love, to be able to give the best of myself to the struggle for freedom.

America is a land of money-grubbers without culture or refinement.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I'm not anti-American, but I'm certainly not pro-American.

The trouble with the Americans is that they expect everyone to be nice and kind and gentle and loving, and when they're not, they get terribly upset.

I don't like to say too much about politics, but I'll say this: I think the Beatles are anti-American.

I can hire half of the working men in America to kill the other half.

I have made more money than any man in America.

America is a very violent country. It's like living in the Roman Empire.

I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA riots, they tried to calm me down. Nothing changed.

I'm a big fan of Westerns. I think they're America's greatest art form.

I'm a black man in America. And that's a tough job.

I am the only one who can give you true freedom. I am the only one who can give you true equality.

America is my home. I love it. But it's not right yet.

I'm just a person who writes songs about Casper the Friendly Ghost and Captain America.

Every Black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

I came to America alone, without any money.

The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics.