Celebrate 4th of July with Independence Day Quotes.

• “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.” ~Thomas Jefferson
• “This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” ~Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States.
• “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” ~George Bernard Shaw
• “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” ~Abraham Lincoln
• “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~Gloria Steinem
• “Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” ~James Bryce
• “Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That’s the greatness of this country.” ~Rafael Cruz
• “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” ~President John F. Kennedy
• “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something, for liberty and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.” ~Ronald Reagan
• “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.” ~Bill Clinton
• “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” ~John Dickinson
• “The time is always right to do what is right.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” ~Nelson Mandela
• “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~George Orwell
• “With freedom comes responsibility.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
• “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” ~Erma Bombeck
• “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 success of liberty.” ~John F. Kennedy
• “Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” ~Thurgood Marshall
• “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.” ~Ronald Reagan
• “I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.” ~Rosa Parks
• “Diversity: the art of thinking independently, together.” ~Malcolm Forbes
• “I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.” ~Woodrow T. Wilson
• “The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is—that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” ~Condoleezza Rice
• “We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.” ~Will Rogers
• “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” ~Lee Greenwood
• “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” ~Harry S. Truman
• “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.” ~Brigham Young
• “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ~George Washington
• “America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.” ~Mike Gallagher
• “America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.” ~Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former Supreme Court Justice.
• “Only in America / Where we dream in red, white and blue / Only in America / Where we dream as big as we want to.”  ~Brooks & Dunn
• “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.”  ~Barack Obama
• “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something — for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic.”  ~Ronald Reagan
• “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, The Gettysburg Address, 1863.
• “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other.” ~John Adams, 2nd president of the United States.
• STAR SPANGLED BANNER

  Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
  What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
  Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
  Over the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
  And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
  Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
  Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
  Over the land of the free and the home of the brave?

A Little Humor

• “A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.” ~Bill Vaughan
• “It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.” ~Stephen Colbert
• “America’s a family. We all yell at each other, and it all works out.” ~Louis C.K.
• “All people are born alike. Except Republicans and Democrats.” ~Groucho Marx
• “May your 4th of July Fireworks cause less personal injury than your alcohol consumption.” ~Unknown
• “Let’s not forget why we celebrate 4th of July, it is the day Will Smith saved us from the aliens.” ~Independence Day
• “My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.” ~Yakov Smirnoff