Fourth of July Quotes 2025

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American Quotes About the Fourth of July: Looking to wish someone a very happy July 4th? Looking for the perfect 4th of July Instagram captions? Or are you just trying to find the right inspirational words to get you in the holiday spirit? If so, these Independence Day quotes will be the perfect reminder of the American value to strive to be better.

100 American Independence Day Quotes

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.– Thomas Paine
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.– Benjamin Franklin
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.– Thomas Macaulay
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.– William Faulkner
A nation where people’s spirits are free and heads are high, will always glorify.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.– Woodrow Wilson

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.– Susan B. Anthony

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.– George Orwellv

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue.– Author Unknown

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

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.– ~Author unknown

Give me liberty or give me death!– Patrick Henry

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.– – Andrew Jackson

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.– Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.– – Abraham Lincoln

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

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.– ~Albert Camus

America is a tune. It must be sung together.– – Gerald Stanley Lee

Don’t take your freedom and independence for granted, someone had to work hard and make many sacrifices for it.– Author unknow

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.– George Washington’s

America means opportunity, freedom, power.– –Ralph Waldo Emerson

America.. it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.– –Thomas Wolfe

A good many elderly people are afflicted with dreadful headaches on the Fourth of July; but I suspect they don’t mind it very much, for in every puff of blue smoke that wreathes itself under their noses, they see a boy’s or a girl’s happy face.– William H. Rideing

In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.– –Phillis Wheatley

Independence now and forever!– –Daniel Webster

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!– – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.– Peter Marshall

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.– John Adams

Then join hand in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.– John Dickinson

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.– – Abraham Lincoln

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.– – Horace

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.– – George William Curtis

Happy 4th of July! I feel so proud to be a part of the most wonderfull country in the world.– Author unknow

Take time on this special day to understand what independence means to you. Happy July 4th!– Author unknow

Enjoy the blessings of freedom and independence, but also do your part and work hard to appreciate it.– Author unknow

I am an American, free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.– Theodore Roosevelt

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.– Ricardo Flores Magon

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object– – Thomas Jefferson

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.– – George Washington

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.– Benjamin Franklin

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.– -Abraham Lincoln

It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.– -Emiliano Zapata

Make this Fourth of July memorable by counting your blessings and truly appreciating your freedom.– Author unknow

While you enjoy the feeling of independence, also do your part and work hard to cherish it.– Author unknow

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?– George S. Patton Jr.

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.– Richard Henry Lee

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.– Benjamin Franklin

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon—except when there are going to be fireworks; and then the sun dawdles intolerably on the threshold like a tedious guest.– Jan Struther

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.– – James Madison

Let’s enjoy this 4th of July by eating foods that would terrify our forefathers.– ~Author unknown

4th of July independence day stars and stripes let freedom ring America sweet land of liberty red, white, blue proud to be an American.– -Unknown

Inspirational 4th of July Quotes

Freedom is never given; it is won.– — A. Philip Randolph

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.– – Wendell L. Wilkie

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.– George Bernard Shaw

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

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.– John Dickinson

Famous 4th of July Quotes

To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.– Thomas Jefferson

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.– Kahlil Gibran

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.– Benjamin Franklin

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.– Thomas Jefferson

Courage, then, my countrymen, 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 means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.– George Bernard Shaw

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.– Louis D. Brandeis

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

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.– Aristotle

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered… deeply, finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.– George Washington

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.– Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

All we have of freedom, all we use or know -This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.– ~Rudyard Kipling

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