Category: Holidays

Independence Day is just around the corner! Are you prepared to honor the red, white, and blue? The 4th of July presents a wonderful opportunity to share on your social media channels. If you’re looking for some inspiring words, take a look at these quotes for the 4th of July.

1. “Liberty and independence forever.” — Davy Crockett
2. “I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” – Wendell L. Wilkie
3. “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” – George Washington
4. “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” – Gerald Stanley Lee
5. “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” – Erma Bombeck
6. “Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
7. “Independence Day: freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
8. “It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.” —Stephen Colbert
9. “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” – John Adams
10. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” — Carrie Jones
11. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Kahlil Gibran
12. Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” –  George Bernard Shaw
13. “My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.” —Yakov Smirnoff
14. “Let’s not forget why we celebrate 4th of July; it is the day Will Smith saved us from the aliens.” – Unknown
15. “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” – John Dickinson
16. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” — The Declaration of Independence, 1776
17. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”  – William Faulkner
18. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
19. “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”— President Harry S. Truman
20. “The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.” – Michelle Obama
21. “Give me liberty or give me death!” — Patrick Henry
22.  “It’s a party in the U.S.A.” — Miley Cyrus, “Party in the U.S.A.”
23. “You cannot separate peace and freedom. Because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X
24. “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”- Abraham Lincoln
25. “People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That’s not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It’s about We the people!” – Kamala Harris
26. “Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes.” – Samuel Sherwood
27. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” -Bill Clinton
28. “Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost
29. “He who is brave is free.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
30. “Laughter is America’s most important export.” – Walt Disney
31. “We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.”- Barack Obama
32. “America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.” – George W. Bush
33. “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” — Benjamin Franklin
34. “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” — Gerald Stanley Lee
35. “The essence of America — that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion — it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from but where you are going.” – Condoleezza Rice
36. “People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That’s not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It’s about we the people!” – Camila Alves
37. “The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride, and history.” – Mike Fitzpatrick
38. “America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen but where they happen all the time.” – Thomas Wolfe
39. “I am an American, free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.” – Theodore Roosevelt
40. “America means opportunity, freedom, power.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
42. “We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” – Lech Walesa
43. “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.”  – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
44. “All we use or know — this our fathers bought for us long ago.” –  Rudyard Kipling
45. “The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.” – John Philip Sousa
46. “My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.” – Val Saintsburt
47. “Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” – James Bryce
48. “I think patriotism is like charity — it begin as home.” – Henry James
49.   “Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” – Gen. Douglas MacArthur
50. “Happy 4th of July! Drink until you see stars… and stripes!” -Unknown

Happy 4th of July!