Best 4th Of July Quotes

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

Better to starve free than be a fat slave

Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A Declaration for this Purpose, I expect, will this day pass Congress…It is gone so far that we must now be a free independent State, or a Conquered Country.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.