Independence Day Sayings

Do you think if they asked a man if he was a Democrat or a Republican that he would refuse to answer on the grounds that his answer might incriminate him? The very fact that this man pleaded his constitutional privilege–that is his admission that he …

The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to weal…

The truth is, I often like women. I like their minds, their bodies, their conversation, their wit, their beauty, their ideas, their clothes, their courage, their independence, their gaiety, their seriousness, their passionate intensity, their loyalty…

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of an idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves of Massachusetts and the cherry blossoms of Washington, and yet it was still a young girl in a bathing suit, …

Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken societies and their obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds …

Free America Now.

Man, with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and const…

I have pure thoughts. Even right now I will tell you that I just met on July 28th, at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, this lovely girl, Miss Eva. She is only fifteen and I talk to her every night. Her father knows she calls me. She wa…

Be loyal to the Emperor, be filial to your parents, be affectionate to your brothers and sisters, be harmonious in your married life, be trustworthy to your friends, be modest and moderate in your conduct, extend your benevolence to all others, study…

For where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no considerations whatever of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or disgrace, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations as…

Because there are three ways of holding conquered states that are accustomed to living under their own laws and in freedom: the first is to ruin them, the next is to reside there in person, the third is to permit them to live under their own laws, ta…