Happy Fourth of July Quotes
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 enjoy a BBQ.
Enjoy these Happy Fourth of July Quotes, and take a minute to remember the folks who made America great.
Best 4th of July Quotes
1.) This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
2.) Where freedom is, there is my nation.
Benjamin Franklin
3.) The cement of this union is the heartblood of every American.
Thomas Jefferson
4.) 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
5.) Happy 4th of July! Drink until you see stars… and stripes!
Unknown
6.) Let’s not forget why we celebrate the 4th of July; it is the day Will Smith saved us from the aliens.
Unknown
7.) 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
8.) America’s a family. We all yell at each other, and it all works out.
Louis C.K.
9.) It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas.
Stephen Colbert
10.) 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
11.) Q. How come there are no knock-knock jokes about America?
A. Because freedom rings.
12.) Q. What did one flag say to the other?
A. Nothing…it just waved.
13.) Q. Why did Paul Revere ride his horse from Boston to Lexington?
A. It was too heavy to carry.
14.) Q. What did George Washington say to his men before they crossed the Delaware?
A. “Men, get in the boat.”
15.) Q. What does the Statue of Liberty Stand for?
A. Because she can’t sit down.
Independence Day Quotations
16.) America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
17.) We don’t know them all, but we owe them all.
Unknown
18.) 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
19.) 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
20.) Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin
21.) God Bless America, my home, sweet home.
Irving Berlin
22.) 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
23.) Home of the Free because of the Brave.
Unknown
24.) Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
25.) You cannot conquer America.
William Pitt
26.) 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
27.) I believe in America because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell L. Wilkie
28.) 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
29.) Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
30.) 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
31.) America means opportunity, freedom, and power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
32.) Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting, we stand; by dividing, we fall.
John Dickinson
33.) The individuals who hope to procure the favors of opportunity must, similar to men, experience the weariness of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
34.) 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
35.) The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
36.) Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw
37.) One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Patriot’s Day
38.) Give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
39.) Flexibility has its life in the hearts, the activities, and 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
40.) Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
41.) We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid because freedom is priceless.
Lech Walesa
42.) I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson
43.) Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
Happy 4th July
44.) I believe in America because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell L. Wilkie
45.) There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
46.) Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
47.) 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
48.) 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
49.) Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
Freedom
50.) 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
51.) 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
52.) 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
53.) In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patriotic Sayings
54.) I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
55.) 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
56.) What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
Frederick Douglass
57.) 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
58.) 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
59.) We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.
Hubert H. Humphrey
60.) We must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
Pilgrim’s Pride
61.) 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
62.) Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
63.) 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
64.) The truth will set you free, but first, it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
65.) I believe in America because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Wendell Willkie
66.) 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
67.) 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
68.) The United States is the only country with a known birthday.
James G. Blaine
American Pride
69.) My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.
Val Saintsbury
70.) America is too great for small dreams.
Ronald Reagan
71.) Laughter is America’s most important export.
Walt Disney
72.) Dreams are the foundation of America.
Lupita Nyong’o
Inspiring 4th of July Quotes
73.) The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
Adrian Cronauer
74.) The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass
75.) In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Barack Obama
76.) 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
77.) It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
John Adams
78.) 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
79.) I’m just like my country—I’m young, scrappy, and hungry, and I am not throwing away my shot.
Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton
80.) 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
Patriotic Quotations
81.) All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
82.) 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
83.) America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen but where they happen all the time.
Thomas Wolfe
84.) Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
Famous July 4th Quotes
85.) Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
86.) America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
87.) America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.
Aurora Raigne
88.) With freedom comes responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt
89.) The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.
John Philip Sousa
90.) Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
91.) America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. (And) It is valor.
Paul Tsongas
92.) This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
93.) Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce
94.) Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
95.) That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it, just for himself.
Fanny Lewald
Short Fourth of July Quotes
96.) One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
97.) Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw
98.) The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.
Thomas Campbell
99.) Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
100.) Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
101.) Dreams are the foundation of America.
Lupita Nyong’o
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By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and publisher of Greeting Card Poet.
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