American Independence Day Quotes

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.