Independence Day Sayings

I do not know if the people of the United States are better off, but I am sure that they are happier than the people of Europe.

The Americans are a very peculiar people; they have a way of doing things which is entirely their own.

I sometimes think that Russians and Americans have a common problem—we don’t know how to relax.

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public.

The constitutional state is a self-organizing system of communication.

I am not an American. I am a Missourian.

I am an American, and I like to see a man do what he says he will do.

I have saved my country. I have avenged America.

There are no second acts in American lives.

I am constitutionally nervous—high-strung. I have a morbid dread of solitude.

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

How nice — to feel nothing, and to be a fair sample of a sturdy American boy.

The great difficulty, and that which makes the American Negro's experience unique, is that he has been forced to make his journey alone.

I am a Negro. I am proud to be a Negro. I am proud to be an American.

I have been a Negro, and I have been a woman, and I have been an American. And I have been all of these things at once.

I want to be myself, and I want to be a woman, and I want to be an American. And I want to be all of these things without apology.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I'm a black man. I'm proud to be a black man. I'm proud to be an American.

Laughter is America's most important export.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.