Independence Day Quotes and Sayings

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words.  ~Sallust

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.  ~William J. Clinton

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.  ~Author Unknown

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.  ~Curtis Billings

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.  ~James G. Blaine

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.  ~Benjamin Franklin

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.  ~Thomas Paine

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.  ~J. Horace McFarland

Freedom is never free.  ~Author Unknown

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!  ~Daniel Webster

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

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

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  ~Thomas Paine

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.  ~Hamilton Fish