Independence Day Sayings

The path to true freedom is paved with sacrifice.

My husband died for freedom, and I will live for it.

We must never allow anyone to take away our freedom again.

Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Freedom's possibility is not to be able to do this or that, but to be able to do this and that.

Freedom in education is a matter of degree.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I knew that in order to be free, I had to be a slave to something. And that something was my own freedom.

The prudent man seeks not pleasure, but freedom from pain.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, just sitting and thinking. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulsive decisions than most people in business. I do …

The pea hybrids form eggs and pollen cells which, in their constitution, represent in equal numbers all constant forms resulting from the combination of traits united through fertilization.

The experience of one's own country and of other countries, the experience of men and women, of cities and of the earth, is an experience which can only be had in freedom.

Impression – I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

The United States is a paper tiger. Don't be afraid of it. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people, not by one or two new types of weapon.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.