Category: Independence Day

Independence Day is almost here! Are you ready to celebrate the red, white, and blue holiday? The 4th of July is a great time to post to your social media platforms. If you are searching for for inspirational words, check out the following quotes for the 4th of July.

1. “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” -George Washington
2. “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” Gerald Stanley Lee
3. “Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy
4. “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
5. “It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.” —Stephen Colbert
6. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Kahlil Gibran
7. Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” –  George Bernard Shaw
8. “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
9. “Let’s not forget why we celebrate 4th of July; it is the day Will Smith saved us from the aliens.” – Unknown
10. “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
11. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”  – William Faulkner
12. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
13. “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
14. “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
15. “You cannot separate peace and freedom. Because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” – Malcolm X
16. “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
17. “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
18. “Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes.” – Samuel Sherwood
19. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” -Bill Clinton
20. “Laughter is America’s most important export.” – Walt Disney
21. “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
22. “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
23. “Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
24. “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
25. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”- Abraham Lincoln
26. “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
27. “The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride, and history.” – Mike Fitzpatrick
28. “America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen but where they happen all the time.” – Thomas Wolfe
29. “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
30. “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
31. “We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” – Lech Walesa
32. “Give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry
33. “The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” – James G. Blaine
34. “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.”  – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
35. “All we use or know — this our fathers bought for us long ago.” –  Rudyard Kipling
36. “The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.” – John Philip Sousa
37. “My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.” – Val Saintsburt
38. “Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” – James Bryce
39. “I think patriotism is like charity — it begin as home.” – Henry James
40.   “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

Happy 4th of July everyone!