The Independence Day Quotes

#1. I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

Arin Paul

#2. In the laws of Connecticut, as well as in all those of New England, we find the germ and gradual development of that township independence which is the life and mainspring of American liberty at the present day.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#3. It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#4. Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. Freedom is the atmosphere in which humanity thrives. Breathe it in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

#7. As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

Najib Razak

#8. Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

Chris Rock

#9. Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#10. Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Davy Crockett

#11. Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.

Kuno Becker

#12. It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada and the Bahamas, to name just a couple. Britain's been dumped more times than Taylor Swift. But did they go writing whining songs about it? No.

Craig Ferguson

#13. Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

Flora Thompson

#14. In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house ...

Virginia Woolf

#15. The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

Brooks Atkinson

#16. The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Norma Shearer

#17. The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

Henry McNeal Turner

#18. He only is rich who owns the day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Albert Einstein

#20. The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like the movie, big mother ship and all, I'll be back.

Aileen Wuornos

#22. Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

Germaine Greer

#23. National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education).

Narendra Modi

#24. The day after Independence Day, the sulfur from the fireworks mingling with the ocean salt - summer.

Gillian Flynn

#25. Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

John Cornyn

#26. I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.

Philip Kerr

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#28. Remember that movie Independence Day, where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion? Why can't we be united on behalf of our planet? And that's what I want to do.

Hillary Clinton

#29. We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

Ronald Reagan

#30. I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any children's future. I didn't sell this country into debt. I didn't do any of the crimes that the man two blocks over at the White House is responsible for,

Adam Kokesh

#31. It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

Dacia Maraini

#32. In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.

Oliver DeMille

#33. What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

George Pataki

#34. As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Dean Devlin

#35. Years ago, a group of good, wise, brave, God-fearing men stood up to claim and defend the human right for independence. Those men are now dead. Their work is not. If good, wise, brave, God-fearing men fail to stand up in their stead, that independence will cease to exist.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.

Heber J. Grant

#37. At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

Sal Albanese

#38. On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.

Seth Low

#39. For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.

Virginia Woolf

#40. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Samuel Johnson

#41. I was actually privately in the White House like invited by Clinton to screen Independence Day, so I know how the private residence looks. I didn't snap a picture, but I have a photographic memory and then I could take a guided tour in the West Wing.

Roland Emmerich

#42. To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

Rosa Bonheur

#43. i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality - Long Live Pakistan and Happy Independence Day

Avinash Advani

#44. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#45. The trouble with celebrating Independence Day is that we tend to look back at what made this the great nation that it is and give little thought to a future that threatens that which free men hold dearest, namely freedom.

Lyn Nofziger

#46. That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.

William Styron

#47. July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Adam C. Engst

#48. It was an epochal moment for western migration, and few Americans who read about the women summiting South Pass failed to grasp the symbolism of their timing. It was July 4, 1836. The first white women had crossed the Rockies on Independence Day.

Rinker Buck

#49. To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#50. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Emme Rollins

#51. I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes.

Robert Black

#52. July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

John Adams

#53. I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

Glenn Beck

#54. Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong ... it's Independence Day.

Martina Mcbride