Inspiring 4th of July Quotes 2024: Celebrate Freedom with Words That Ignite the Spirit

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

- John F. Kennedy

"No matter who you are or what you look like, how you started off, or how and who you love, America is a place where you can write your own destiny."

- Barack Obama

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

- The Declaration of Independence, 1776

"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

- Barack Obama

"That’s the promise of tomorrow — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it."

- Barack Obama

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

- John F. Kennedy

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."

- Barack Obama

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"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

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something — for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic."

- Ronald Reagan

"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

"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."

- George Washington

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 is another name for opportunity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

- Harry Truman

"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

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what`s right."

- Bringham Young

"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."

- John Dickinson

"America is a tune. It must be sung together."

- Gerald Stanley Lee

"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

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

- Benjamin Franklin

"America means opportunity, freedom, power."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

- Elmer Davis

"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 protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."

- George Washington

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

- William Faulkner

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Liberty is the breath of life to nations."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"He who is brave is free."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

- Albert Camus

"Only in America / Where we dream in red, white and blue / Only in America / Where we dream as big as we want to."

- Brooks & Dunn

"The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty."

- Marquis de Lafayette

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes."

- Samuel Sherwood

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

- Arthur Ashe

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation, evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right."

- Peter Marshall

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

- Nathan Hale

"Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."

- Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”

"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go."

- Hazel Scott

"It is impossible to conquer a nation determined to be free!"

- Thomas Paine

"Find a moment, just a simple moment, to close your eyes and think of the men and women who protect the freedoms you enjoy. It’s a privilege, not a right."

- Matthew Lillard

"When Freedom from her mountain height / Unfurled her standard to the air / She tore the azure robe of night / And set the star of glory there."

- Joseph Rodman Drake

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

- John Milton, “Areopagitica”

"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers be."

- John Quincy Adams

"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."

- Marquis de Lafayette

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"America is a tune. It must be sung together."

- Gerald Stanley Lee

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything."

- Alexander Hamilton

"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

"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

- George Washington

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

- Bob Marley

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it."

- Thomas Paine

"I'd like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free."

- Rosa Parks

"Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation."

- Hillary Clinton

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

- Clarence Darrow

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

- Voltaire

"I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true."

- Wendell Willkie

"Where freedom is, there is my nation."

- Benjamin Franklin

"America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."

- Harry S. Truman

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"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 II

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

"God Bless America, my home, sweet home."

- Irving Berlin

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

- Bill Clinton

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness."

- Louis D. Brandeis

"The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree."

- Thomas Campbell

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!"

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

- James Bryce

"You can come from humble circumstances and do great things."

- Condoleezza Rice

"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works."

- Bill Vaughan

"You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you."

- Amy Tan

"Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty."

- Alexander Hamilton

"My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America."

- Val Saintsbury

"The fact is, with every friendship you make and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world."

- Michelle Obama

"History is entirely created by the person who tells the story."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

- Edward Abbey

"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

- Herbert Hoover

"America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time."

- Thomas Wolfe

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."

- Mark Twain

"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can’t go hand in hand, I don’t want to go."

- Hazel Scott

"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls."

- Robert J. McCracken

"The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

- Sinclair Lewis

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

- George Washington

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

- James Madison

"Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry, and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people."

- George Washington

"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."

- Ronald Reagan

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Happy 4th of July! This country of immigrants, religious refugees, outcasts and dreamers has come a long way. Let’s keep going."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"We shall go wild with fireworks ... And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness."

- Natsuki Takaya

"Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life."

- John F. Kennedy

"The United States is the only country with a known birthday."

- James G. Blaine

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

- Gloria Steinem

"America’s a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out."

- Louis C. K.

"Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!"

- Captain Jimmy Wilder, “Independence Day”

"Laughter is America’s most important export."

- Walt Disney

"It’s a party in the U.S.A."

- Miley Cyrus

"My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbour, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love."

- Yakov Smirnoff

"America’s a family. We all yell at each other, and it all works out."

- Louis C. K.

"I love my freedom. I love my America."

- Jessi Lane Adams

"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

"Just found out that every Fourth of July, the British celebrate, ‘We Dodged a Bullet Day.’"

- Conan O'Brien

"It’s Fourth of July weekend, or, as I call it, Exploding Christmas."

- Stephen Colbert

"Today is the 4th of July, when we honor the day that Uncle Sam chopped down Benedict Arnold at the Alamo. Happy hot dogs!"

- Stephen Colbert

"Americans will put up with anything, provided it doesn’t block traffic."

- Dan Rather

"Oh my god, you look like the Fourth of July! Makes me want a hot dog real bad."

- Paulette Parcelle, “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde”

"It’s Fourth of July weekend, or as I call it, exploding Christmas."

- Stephen Colbert

"We will stand by the right, we will stand by the true, we will live, we will die for the red, white, and blue."