Independence Day Quotes

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  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

    Funny   Wisdom   Country  
  • If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

  • It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  • Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2527, e-artnow
  • To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

    Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)
  • 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.

    Religious   Land   Ideas  
  • Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

    Ho Chi Minh's political slogan as quoted in Jean Sainteny "Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir" (p. 172), 1972.
  • All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.4122, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

    Jobs   Freedom   People  
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
  • My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
  • We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

    Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”
  • He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

    Pain   Freedom   Fear  
    Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow
  • Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

  • There are shots that I had to walk away from because we had to get the movie in the theaters. There are some in "Independence Day" and "Godzilla," but lately I got smart. I would plan it so I had enough time [to get it right]. That just comes with experience.

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  • India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

    "Consolation of Mind". Book by H. K. Suhas, p. 111, 2004.
  • Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

    Sleep   Destiny   August  
  • 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.

  • We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

    Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.213, Simon and Schuster
  • At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her success and her failures. Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”
  • I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

    Independence   Drs   Film  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

    Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
  • Remember that movie Independence Day, where invaders were coming from outer space and the whole world was united against the invasion? Why can't we be united on behalf of our planet? And that's what I want to do.

  • That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

  • May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

    Light   Flames   Land  
    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.65, Best Books on
  • 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.

  • Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

    Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

    Inspiring   Law   Long  
    Speech delivered to the Bombay Presidency Mahar Conference, www.columbia.edu. May 31, 1936.
  • Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

    Change   Freedom   Father  
    Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863
  • It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

    "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.
  • Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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