Top 83 4th Of July Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 83 of the best 4th of july quotes ever written, picked out of the full 4th of july archive on QuoteForever. You will find Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin among them.

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

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

3

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

4

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive.

5

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

6

Necessity never made a good bargain.

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

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America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

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Freedom is from within.

10

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

11

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

12

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

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My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

15

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

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

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We are not just any nation.

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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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Gos bless America, my home sweet home.

20

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

21

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

22

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

23

Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

24

We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

25

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

26

Damn, I can't wait until it get dark, So I can light these fireworks up at the park, And celebrate my independence, It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.

27

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

28

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

29

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

30

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

31

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

32

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

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A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.

34

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

35

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

36

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

37

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

38

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

39

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

40

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

41

Fear is the passion of slaves.

42

On July 4th, we renew our commitment to the American Idea-the belief that all men are created equal. We read the Declaration. We tell our kids the history. We remember those who died to protect our country. And along the way, we remind ourselves of why we love it.

43

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

45

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

46

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

47

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

48

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

49

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

50

He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

51

America is too great for small dreams.

52

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.

53

From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.

54

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

55

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

56

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

57

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

58

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

59

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

60

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

61

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

62

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

63

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.

64

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

65

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

66

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

67

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

68

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

69

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.

70

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.

71

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

72

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

73

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

74

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

75

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

76

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

77

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

78

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

79

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

80

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

81

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

82

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

83

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

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