July 4th Sayings and July 4th Quotes

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun. James Lafferty

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No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. Mac Thornberry

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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

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To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days. Carol Ryrie Brink

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

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Let freedom never perish in your hands. Joseph Addison

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The United States is the only country with a known birthday. James G. Blaine

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

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Freedom is never given; it is won. A. Philip Randolph

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

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Where liberty dwells, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin

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

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. Thomas Paine

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

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

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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. John F. Kennedy

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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! Daniel Webster

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

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This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith. Lyndon B. Johnson

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. Albert Camus

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

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I love my freedom. I love my America. Jessi Lane Adams

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What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from.' Marilyn vos Savant

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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. William J. Clinton

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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. Ricardo Flores Magon

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

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Freedom's natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world. Florence A. Jones

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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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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson

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I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, / A Yankee Doodle, do or die; / A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam’s, / Born on the fourth of July. George Cohan

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Is it the Fourth? Thomas Jefferson

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Independence now; and INDEPENDENCE forever. Daniel Webster

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Independence now; and INDEPENDENCE forever. Daniel Webster

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Hearing a Fourth-of-July orator deliver the Declaration of Independence, a countryman exclaimed: 'He read it very well, but you can't make me believe he ever wrote it!' George Eliot

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After all, the strongest sentiment on this continent is nationality — love of country, glory in the Revolution and Declaration of Independence, reverence for Washington and the founders of our Constitution. Cut an American into a hundred pieces and boil him down, and you will find him all Fourth of July. Wendell Phillips

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And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and liberties of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. In short, the flames kindled on the fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them. Thomas Jefferson

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What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham. Frederick Douglass

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This is the time-honored, wine-honored, toast-drinking, powder-wasting, tyrant-killing fourth of July-consecrated, for the last sixty years, to bombast, to falsehood, to impudence, to hypocrisy. It is the great carnival of republican despotism, and of christian impiety, famous the world over. William Lloyd Garrison

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I deem it very appropriate that we celebrate the Fourth of July in the Crystal Palace. For around us are the best achievements of civilization ; around us are the true vehicles of American power—around us are the prophecies of the coming time. E.H. Chapin

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I trust, sir, that the Fourth of July will ever continue to be celebrated as it has been to-day, understandingly as well as enthusiastically; because it furnishes at once the most instructive and glorious illustration of the union of the two great principles of STABILITY and PROGRESS, on which our independence was originally founded; — on which our prosperity, at the present day, rests as upon its corner stone; and by whose cordial alliance, and jointworking alone, the great designs of Providence in reference to our beloved country can be fulfilled. E.H. Chapin

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This, then, is what I call consulting the genius of the Fourth of July; to get ourselves, as the spiritualists say, ""into communication” with the creators of the Fourth of July, to feel the same as to the republic, and then our own minds and impulses will announce to us the line of action which the fathers would have followed in whatever shall turn out to be the present emergency; and thus in all our conjunctures the sentiment of the Revolution should be brought to bear upon the crisis of the republic. E.H. Chapin

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Fourth of July, how sweet it sounds, / As every year it rolls around. / It brings active joy to boy and man, / This glorious day throughout our land. Julia A. Moore

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History began on July 4, 1776. Everything before that was a mistake. Ron Swanson

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It's the Fourth of July, let's show 'em some fireworks. Dylan Hiller

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We kicked the Brit's ass in 1776; we still celebrate the 4th of July Jerry Charters

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Americans today are just as rugged and just as tough as any of the heroes we celebrate on the Fourth of July. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes. Ms. Ginny Stroud

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Bells ring-a-lingin', firecrackers poppin' / Lightin' up the sky / Hail to the flag, It's the 4th of July Bryan Jay Hongola; Dwain Edward Miller; Kenny Joseph Chaisson; Ron Keel

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It's a day to stand / Hat in hand / Watchin' parades / Singin' along with each song the band plays Bryan Jay Hongola; Dwain Edward Miller; Kenny Joseph Chaisson; Ron Keel

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It is at the season when nature hath assumed her loveliest apparel that the American people assemble in their several temples to celebrate the birthday of their nation. Arrayed in all the beauties of the year, the Fourth of July once more visits us. Green fields and a ripening harvest proclaim it, a bright sun cheers it, and the hearts of freemen bid it welcome. Daniel Webster

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The Fourth of July is not an occasion to compass sea and land to make proselytes. The good sense and the good nature which yet remain among us will, we trust, prevail on this day, and be sufficient to chain, at least for a season, that untamed monster, Party Spirit — and would to God that it might be chained forever, that, as we have but one interest, we might have but one heart and one mind. Daniel Webster

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July 4th Sayings and Quotes