Independence Day Sayings

Celebrating liberty, freedom, and the American spirit — 771 sayings

The American people like to be humbugged.

— P.T. Barnum 1860
Wisdom

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson 2008
Wisdom

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, in Russia or in England, in China or in France, stops being a Jew and becomes a citizen of the country where he lives, he is lost to us.

— David Ben-Gurion 1937
Wisdom

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male — or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

— Kurt Cobain Unknown
Wisdom

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

— Sam Walton Unknown
Wisdom

Mandatory education is a coercive education that suppresses freedom. To impose specific teaching materials is a dictatorial act.

— Muammar Gaddafi 1975
Educational

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. This honor now belongs to America.

— Richard Nixon 1973
Educational

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

— Woodrow Wilson 1919
Educational

The Americans are a people of no history, no civilization, no culture.

— Saddam Hussein 1991
Educational

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

— Haile Selassie Various
Educational

We have learned that the struggle for freedom and justice is a continuous one, and that it requires courage, determination, and sacrifice.

— Haile Selassie Various
Educational

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1837 (posthumous)
Educational

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

— Margaret Thatcher 1988
Educational

The United States has a long history of supporting dictatorships.

— Noam Chomsky 1992
Educational

The technology of behavior is not a threat to freedom, but a means to achieve it.

— B.F. Skinner 1971
Educational

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.

— Paulo Freire 1990s
Educational

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

— Baruch Spinoza 1670
Educational

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could a man ask of life? Aviation combined them all.

— Charles Lindbergh 1953
Educational

We need to teach our children patriotism and love for the motherland.

— Turkmenistan's Saparmurat Niyazov 2002
Educational

The more technology advances, the more we lose our freedom.

— Ted Kaczynski 1998
Educational
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