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Jul 3, 2009 
In preparation for Independence day on July 4th I decided to list a few of my favorite quotes about these ideals.
“In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today. In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.”
- Doc Hastings
“Independence is happiness.”
- Susan B. Anthony
“Injustice in the end produces independence.”
- Voltaire
“It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.”
- Daniel Webster
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
- Mark Twain
“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”
- George Washington
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Where liberty is, there is my country.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
- John Adams
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
- Patrick Henry
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
- Harriet Tubman
“The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.”
- James Madison
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
- George Orwell
“Peace is liberty in tranquility.”
- Cicero
“Liberty is worth paying for.”
- Jules Verne
“Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.”
- Cervantes
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. Americans never quit.”
- Douglas MacArthur
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