Here’s a score of pithy quotes about freedom to help celebrate the Fourth of July.Reuters
Some people like to express their themselves through quotes. For social media users that like to put sayings on their Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts, International Business Times comprised 27 messages said by noteable figures.
"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." — Louis D. Brandeis
"The United States is the only country with a known birthday." — James G. Blaine
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." — Marquis de Lafayette
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and on an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." — Harry Truman
"Liberty is the breath of life to nations." — George Bernard Shaw
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." — Simone de Beauvoir
"If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe." — Lyndon B. Johnson
"Freedom lies in being bold." — Robert Frost
“We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.” — Robert J. McCracken
"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely than this our own country." — Daniel Webster
"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." — William Faulkner
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." — Bill Clinton
"Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty." — Samuel Adams
"I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true." — Wendell Willkie
"America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor." — Paul Thongs
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15." — Ronald Reagan
"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall." — John Dickinson:
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." — Benjamin Franklin
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance." — Nadia Boulanger
"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly." — John F. Kennedy
"The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic — have always blown on free men." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"There, I guess King George will be able to read that." — John Hancock
"In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have." — Harry Emerson Fosdick
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