Independence Day Quotes

Independence day quotes for all occasions can be found on this page and our other quotes pages. Patriotic quotes from American history are perfect to use as 4th of July quotes for your Independence day celebration or party.

George Washington, Independence Day, c.1919 Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Quotes on independence from our Founding fathers, presidents and other figures from history still resonate today with American patriots. Share them with your friends and family today!

Some of the best Independence day quotes come from our Founding Fathers and even our Founding Mothers. John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin - these men and more have left us a wealth of quotes, many about Independence and liberty.

"Let freedom never perish in your hands." - Joseph Addison

"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

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself." - Thomas Paine

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations." - George Bernard Shaw

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." - George Washington

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event." - Thomas Jefferson

"Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." - Ronald Reagan

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." - George Washington

"My hand trembles, but my heart does not." - Stephen Hopkins (as he signed the Declaration of Independence)

"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." - Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln

"This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion." - Thomas Jefferson

"Independence forever." - John Adams

"Resolved: That these colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved of 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. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." - Richard Lee

"It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases" - Harry Truman

"Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was or will be decided among men... You will see in a few days a Declaration setting forth the causes which have impelled us to this mighty revolution, and the reasons which will justify it in the sight of God and man." - John Adams

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"As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;--let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty." - Abraham Lincoln

"The Declaration of independence... [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man." - Thomas Jefferson

"This was the object of the Declaration of independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion." - Thomas Jefferson

"Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence." - Joseph Story

"The people of the U.S. owe their independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings." - James Madison

"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations." - John Adams

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Louis D. Brandeis

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

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