Independence Day Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

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  Albert Einstein (1970). “Out of my later years”Greenwood Pub Group

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• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  A. Philip Randolph

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  Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress1937.

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• Let every nation knowwhether it wishes us well or illthat we shall pay any pricebear any burdenmeet any hardshipsupport any friendoppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

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  Inaugural Address20 Jan. 1961

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• Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom mustlike menundergo the fatigue of supporting it.

  Thomas Paine

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  The American Crisis12 Sept. 1777

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• True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

  Brigham Young

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

  Abraham Lincoln

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  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others6 Apr. 1859

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• Independence is happiness.

  Susan B. Anthony

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• Men love their countrynot because it is greatbut because it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

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

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirscorrespondence and private papers of Thomas Jeffersoned. by T.J. Randolph”p.239

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• Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highwhere knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truthwhere tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedommy fatherLET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”p.39editionNEXT.com

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• We must be free not because we claim freedombut because we practice it.

  William Faulkner

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  William Faulkner (2011). “EssaysSpeeches & Public Letters”p.151Modern Library

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• Let freedom never perish in your hands.

  Joseph Addison

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• As Mankind becomes more liberalthey will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  George Washington

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  George Washington (1837). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondenceaddressesmessagesand other papersofficial and privateselected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the authornotesand illustrations”p.178

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed usbut is always the result of a good consciencegood healthoccupationand freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”p.10Modern Library

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• Your future depends on what you do today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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

  Harry S. Truman

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  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”AndersonS.C. : Droke Housedistributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture mebreak my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead bodynot my obedience. Ultimatelythereforeit is I who am the victor and not hefor he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His LifeWorkand Ideas”p.300Vintage

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

  Elmer Davis

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• Liberty is always dangerousbut it is the safest thing we have.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

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  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of societythe sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

  Bhagat Singh

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• Government of the peopleby the peoplefor the peopleshall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

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  Gettysburg AddressGettysburgPa.19 Nov. 1863.

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• India isthe cradle of the human racethe birthplace of human speechthe mother of historythe grandmother of legendand the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

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  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”Da Capo Press

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• Long years agowe made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hourwhen the world sleepsIndia will awake to life and freedom.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

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