40 Quotes That Will Remind You of What the Fourth of July Is All About
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40 Quotes That Will Remind You of What the Fourth of July Is All About
This year, celebrate the Fourth of July with a delicious BBQ spread and all the red, white, and blue décor you can handle. Spend your holiday filled to the brim with American pride by enjoying our country's finest — picnic-worthy appetizers, juicy burgers, and festive desserts — until the fireworks light up the night sky. And since actions speak louder than words, use one of these quotes as an Instagram caption to really let freedom ring. Whether you’re planning on spending your day off relaxing with family or floating in the pool with a summer drink in hand, you'll love these 4th of July quotes.
And celebrations aside, Independence Day is an important time to reflect on our country’s unique history with these inspiring sentiments from presidents, politicians, and revolutionary thinkers alike. Touching on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, these quotes perfectly highlight why we are so lucky to live in "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave."
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Oscar Wilde
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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Bob Dylan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Nelson Mandela
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.
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James Bryce
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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Henry James
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Frederick Douglass
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.
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Barack Obama
In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
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Condoleezza Rice
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.
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J.S.B. Morse
I don't believe in the constitution because I'm American. I'm American because I believe in the constitution.
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Fanny Lewald
That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it just for himself.
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Ronald Reagan
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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Unknown
We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.
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William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
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Elmer Davis
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!
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Mike Fitzpatrick
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
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George Bernard Shaw
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
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Louis D. Brandeis
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness.
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Daniel Webster
Independence now and forever!
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Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
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Robert Frost
Freedom lies in being bold.
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Harry S. Truman
America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.
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Woodrow Wilson
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
With freedom comes responsibility.
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Paul Tsongas
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
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Patrick Henry
Give me liberty or give me death!
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Martin Luther King Jr.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
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Hillary Clinton
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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John F. Kennedy
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Willie Nelson
America, to me, is freedom.
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Peter Marshall
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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Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
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Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Unknown
My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.
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William J. Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Mac Thornberry
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
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Lupita Nyong'o
Dreams are the foundation of America.
"I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home."