The 4th of July is almost here and InvestorPlace is celebrating early with some Independence Day quotes.
The holiday is a time when Americans celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. This separated us from Britain during the Revolutionary War and resulted in the country we have today, but you can learn more about that here.
Instead, enjoy these following quotes that have to do with Independence Day.
Independence Day Quotes
- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” –William J. H. Boetcker
- “Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower”
Independence Day Quotes
- “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
- “Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” –Louis D. Brandeis
Independence Day Quotes
- “America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.” –Adlai Stevenson
- “My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” –Thomas Jefferson
Independence Day Quotes
- “The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.” –John Hancock
- “The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.” –Henry Cabot Lodge
Independence Day Quotes
- “What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from.'” –Marilyn vos Savant
- “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
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