Independence Day Sayings

The only true progress is the progress towards freedom from technology.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

My exoticism was my invention, my freedom my creation.

I'm living proof that the American Dream is still alive. A black man with no education can make it.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. Every truth that has been discovered was first ridiculed, then violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest embodiment of the patriotism of nations.

The American women are certainly not pretty... They are not graceful, they are not elegant, they are not accomplished, they are not intellectual, they are not virtuous, and they are not honest.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

It is an evil growing out of our republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it.

I have great faith in the American people. They are a good people, and they will always do the right thing if they are given the facts.

I have a soul that pants for liberty.

The true meaning of freedom is the freedom of the soul from the bondage of the body.

The highest act of freedom is to consent to the necessity of God.

The truth is that the happiness of man is not in his freedom, but in his submission to God.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I'm a black American. I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have been blessed with a wonderful family. I have been blessed with a wonderful career. I have been blessed with wonderful fans. But I'm a black American.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.