It’s the 4th of July! A time to celebrate America’s freedom. A time for family and friends and BBQs and fireworks. This mid-summer celebration of our country’s birthday also can have a lot of emotion to it.
During the 4th of July, we think about our freedoms, where our country has been, and what to look towards in the future.
Here are 17 quotes all about the 4th of July and freedom:
“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”- Abigail Adams
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” – Oscar Wilde
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.” –Helen Gahagan Douglas
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” – John Dickinson
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” – Herbert Hoover
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence
“Our glorious diversity — our diversities of faiths and colors and creeds — that is not a threat to who we are, it makes us who we are,” –Michelle Obama
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”- Elmer Davis
“And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” – Lee Greenwood
“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
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”- Harry S. Truman
“It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.” – J. Horace McFarland