Independence Day Sayings

I think the fundamental difference between the British sense of humor and the American is that the British are looking for irony, and the Americans are looking for sincerity.

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows others the way. Freedom and slavery are states of mind.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

Do you think that an American who insists on making up his own mind, who objects to being told what to do, to being pushed around by officious officials, is thereby made un-American? I do not. I think that he is being more American than people who do…

The right of nature ... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgement, and reason, he …

Ignorance of the causes, and original constitution of right, equity, law, and justice, disposeth a man to make custom and example the rule of his actions.

Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?

The United States has been a major player in the Middle East for a long time, and its policies have often been detrimental to the people of the region.

I don't mind being called a Tom, because I am a Tom. I'm a Tom for my race. I'm a Tom for my people. I'm a Tom for my good old United States of America.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice.

I gave women a sense of freedom. I gave them back their bodies: bodies that were drenched in sweat, due to the corsets and underwear, the frills, the lace, the trimmings.

I'm not a politician. I'm a basketball player. I'm a Black man, an American citizen, a father, a husband, and a son. And the most important thing is for us to continue to use our platform to spread a lot of joy, a lot of love, and a lot of hope.

So long as the love of liberty is not dead in the hearts of men, and so long as the love of justice remains, so long shall we have the spirit of progress.

And I'll never let my son have an ego. He'll be nice to everyone wherever we go. I mean, I might even make him be Republican. So everybody know he love white people…

I felt that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information, that it would spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general.

I found out that the American mathematician Richard Hamilton, who published a paper on the geometric analysis of three-manifolds in 1982, and I have found out that he has tried to claim my solution.

We're not in the news business. We're not trying to do 'truth to power.' We're trying to entertain… We don't feel bad about [pulling the 'Patriot Act' episode in Saudi Arabia] at all.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.