Fourth of July Quotes

“You cannot conquer America."

–William Pitt, speech, House of Lords, November 18, 1777


 

“Give me liberty or give me death!”

–Patrick Henry, speech, Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775

“America means opportunity, freedom, power.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson, Public and Private Education, 1864

“America…it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”

–Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, 1935

“Let every man do his duty, and be true to his country.”

–Anonymous, rallying cry, Boston Tea Party, December 16, 1773

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

–John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961

“In every human breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call love of freedom; it is impatient of oppression and pants for deliverance.”

–Phillis Wheatley, in The Boston Post-Boy, 1774

“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”

–Benjamin Franklin, attributed, 1789

“Independence now and forever!”

–Daniel Webster, eulogy, August 2, 1826

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

–Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863