Quotes for American Independence Day
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” – James G. Blaine
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” – James A. Baldwin
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain
“A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.” – Curtis Billings
“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.” – Mark Twain
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” – George Washington
“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” – Alex de Tocqueville
“Go blow some shit up today.” – Me
