Us Independence Day Quotes

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Do your best with what you have where you are.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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.

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.

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

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.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

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.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

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.