Happy Fourth of July Quotes speaks to many of the great things that make America a very special country. These insights come from Presidents, politicians, comedians, writers, and statesmen.
For our founding fathers and many who lived through a very difficult time of the revolution, the 4th of July had much greater meaning than simply a time to shoot off some bottle rockets and Black Cats. Enjoy these Happy Fourth of July Quotes, and take a minute to remember the folks who made America great.
4th of July Quotes
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
Where freedom is, there is my nation.
Benjamin Franklin
The cement of this union is the heartblood of every American.
Thomas Jefferson
This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.
Ronald Reagan
Funny 4th of July Quotes
Happy 4th of July! Drink until you see stars… and stripes!
Unknown
Let’s not forget why we celebrate the 4th of July, it is the day Will Smith saved us from the aliens.
Unknown
When you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.
George Carlin
America’s a family. We all yell at each other, and it all works out.
Louis C.K.
It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.
Stephen Colbert
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Erma Bombeck
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Corny July 4th Jokes
Q. How come there are no knock-knock jokes about America?
A. Because freedom rings.
Q. What did one flag say to the other?
A. Nothing…it just waved.
Q. Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from Boston to Lexington?
A. It was too heavy to carry.
Q. What did George Washington say to his men before they crossed the Delaware?
A. “Men, get in the boat.”
Q. What does the Statue of Liberty Stand for?
A. Because she can’t sit down.
Independence Day Quotations
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
We don’t know them all but we owe them all.
Unknown
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
John Kerry
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, a responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
God Bless America, my home, sweet home.
Irving Berlin
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America … there’s the United States of America.
Barack Obama
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Patriotism
Home of the Free because of the Brave.
Unknown
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
You cannot conquer America.
William Pitt
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor, and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
John F. Kennedy
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell L. Wilkie
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
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
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Happy Fourth of July Quotes
America means opportunity, freedom, and power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
The individuals who hope to procure the favors of opportunity, must, similar to men, experience the weariness of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom, and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and goodwill, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Patriot’s Day
Give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Flexibility has its life in the hearts, the activities, the soul of men thus it must be every day earned and invigorated – else like a bloom cut from its nurturing roots, it will shrivel and pass on.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Lech Walesa
Happy 4th July
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell L. Wilkie
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
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
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
Freedom
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 protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
The essence of America—that which really unites us—is not ethnicity, or nationality, or religion. It is an idea—and what an idea it is: that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. That it doesn’t matter where you came from, but where you are going.
Condoleezza Rice
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patriotic Sayings
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
Patriotism is the love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, and we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
Cory Booker
What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
Frederick Douglass
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their plows but to secure liberty for their souls.
Robert J. McCracken
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights, we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.
Calvin Coolidge
We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Hubert H. Humphrey
We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
Pilgrim’s Pride
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
Colin Powell
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
America The Beautiful
The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell Willkie
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff
We need enthusiasm, imagination, and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely – We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith, and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
James G. Blaine
My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.
Val Saintsbury
America is too great for small dreams.
Ronald Reagan
Laughter is America’s most important export.
Walt Disney
Inspiring 4th of July Quotes
The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
Adrian Cronauer
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Barack Obama
The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.
Michelle Obama
It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
John Adams
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela
I’m just like my country—I’m young, scrappy, and hungry, and I am not throwing away my shot. Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton
I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don’t have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It’s always fun.
James Lafferty
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
Independence Day: 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
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By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and publisher of Greeting Card Poet.
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