Independence Day Quotes

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim ... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!
Sylvia Levi

India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
Tecumseh

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Harriet Tubman

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!
James Monroe

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Vladimir Lenin

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

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

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Dorothy Thompson

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
P. T. Barnum