Category: Independence Day

Independence Day is almost here. Are you searching for the perfect quotes to add to your Fourth of July creations or social media posts? Quotes are a great way to capture your thoughts and feelings about the holiday. If you need help finding the right one, check out the following inspirational quotes for the 4^th of July.

1. “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
2. “America is a tune. It must be sung together.”- Gerald Stanley Lee
3. “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
4. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”  – William Faulkner
5. “Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
6. “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
7. “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
8. “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
9. “America is another name for opportunity.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “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
11. “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” – John Adams
12. “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” – John Dickinson
13. “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
14. Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
15. “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
16. “We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. – Robert J. McCracken
17. “America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen but where they happen all the time.” – Thomas Wolfe
18. “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
19. “If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
20. “We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” – Lech Walesa
21. “I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” – Wendell L. Wilkie
22. “Give me liberty or give me death!” – Patrick Henry
23. “The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” – James G. Blaine
24. “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.”  – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
25. “All we use or know — this our fathers bought for us long ago.” –  Rudyard Kipling
26. “The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.” – John Philip Sousa
27. “My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.” – Val Saintsburt
28. “It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.” -Stephen Colbert
29. “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy
30. “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” — Barack Obama
31. “So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
32. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” -Gloria Steinem
33. “I love my freedom. I love my America.” – Jessi Lane Adams
34. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” –  Herbert Hoover
35. “All people are born alike. Except Republicans and Democrats.” — Groucho Marx
36. “Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.” — Calvin Coolidge
37. “Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”— Sinclair Lewis
38. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.” —Mark Twain
39. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”— Bill Clinton
40. ¨God Bless America, my home, sweet home.¨— Irving Berlin
41. “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” — Alexis de Tocqueville
42. “Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.” — Hillary Clinton
43. “I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks.” — James Lafferty
44. “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “Happy 4th of July! Drink until you see stars… and stripes!” — Unknown
46. “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what`s right.” – Bringham Young
47. “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” — Ronald Reagan
48. ¨One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!¨— Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have a great 4^th of July!