Best July 4th Quotes & Sayings

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. — Thomas Jefferson

Just because you came here in 1880, 1950, whenever, you became an American. You get to celebrate July 4th like every other American. You don't just get the good part. You get the bad part, too. You get all of it. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. — Mark Twain

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

What to the Slave is the 4th of July? — Frederick Douglass

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. — Ulysses S. Grant

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work. — Adam C. Engst

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. — Benjamin Franklin

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

It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other. — John Adams

Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies! — Joseph Hopkinson

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. The thought of being a lawyer or a councilman or an engineer, anything like that, seemed impossible to me. To get married, to have children, to get trapped in the family structure. To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep. — Charles Bukowski

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing. — E. E. Cummings

The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history - the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you
to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The
principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. — Frederick Douglass

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity. — Calvin Coolidge

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages. — Benjamin Franklin

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so — Mark Twain

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 usually don't have a burger, a brat, and a steak but it is 4th of July. And I need the energy if I'm gonna start blowin crap up. It's what the founding fathers would want. — Jim Gaffigan

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

Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance? — Benjamin Franklin

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth. — Mark Twain

July 4th, (ie, time to celebrate our freedoms as Americans by eating hormone-laden farm animals and blowing shit up)
-Geena (Triple Shot Betty) — Jody Gehrman

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. — John F. Kennedy

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality. — Thomas Jefferson

No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend. — Joe

Let freedom never perish in your hands. — Joseph Addison

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments. — Thomas Jefferson

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past ... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. — Frederick Chiluba

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government. — George Washington

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion. — John Adams

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom. — Benjamin Franklin