4th of July Quotes to Celebrate America’s Birthday
Can you hear that sound? That’s the sound of fireworks popping, barbecue grills sizzling, marching bands playing, and freedom ringing! Here in America, we are all about that red, white, and blue holiday, and we’ve got 55 of the best 4th of July quotes to help you celebrate America’s birthday!
Whether you’re looking for inspiring Independence Day quotes or Fourth of July captions for the perfect patriotic social media post, we’ve got you covered! Take a look at all of our happy 4th of July 2023 quotes below!
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Classic 4th of July Quotes
1. “Where liberty dwells, there is my country.”
— Benjamin Franklin
2. “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
3. “America is another name for opportunity.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”
— Elmer Davis
5. “Liberty is the breath of life to nations.”
— George Bernard Shaw
6. “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
— William Faulkner
7. “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
8. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
— Frederick Douglass
9. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
— Mark Twain
10. “Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”
—James Bryce
11. “I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home.”
— Henry James
12. “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.”
— John Dickinson
13. “Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”
— Gen. Douglas MacArthur
14. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Presidential 4th of July Quotes
15. “Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
― President Calvin Coolidge
16. “In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
― President Franklin D. Roosevelt
17. “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
— President John F. Kennedy
18. “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
— President Bill Clinton
19. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
— President John F. Kennedy
20.“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
— President Harry S. Truman
21. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
— President John F. Kennedy
22. “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.”
— President Dwight D. Eisenhower
23. “Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”
— President Herbert Hoover
24. “I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
— President Theodore Roosevelt
25. “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.”
— President Abraham Lincoln
26. “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something, for liberty and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.”
— President Ronald Reagan
27. “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.”
— President Ronald Reagan
28. “The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
— President James Madison
29. “The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.”
— President Woodrow Wilson
30.“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches, or its romance.”
— President Theodore Roosevelt
31. “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wholesome 4th of July Quotes
32. “On second thought, I do like to brag … ‘Cause I’m pretty proud of the ragged old flag.”
— Johnny Cash
33. “I believe in America because we have great dreams and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
— Wendell Willkie
34. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
— Oscar Wilde
35. “It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.”
— John Adams
36. “God Bless America, my home, sweet home.”
— Irving Berlin
37. “Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child.”
— Phil Vassar
38. “No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.”
— Mac Thornberry
39. “The United States is the only country with a known birthday.”
— James G. Blaine
40. “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
41. “When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery … It takes all the people—black and white, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants—to make up America.”
— Judy Garland
42. “Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That’s the greatness of this country.”
— Rafael Cruz
4th of July Quotes: Freedom
43. “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.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
44. “With freedom comes responsibility.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.”
— Peter Marshall
46. “I’d like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted other people to be also free.”
— Rosa Parks
47. “The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.”
— John Philip Sousa
48. “Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can’t go hand in hand, I don’t want to go.”
— Hazel Scott
49. “Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.”
— Helen Gahagan Douglas
50. “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.”
— Brigham Young
51. “May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.”
— Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
52. “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
— Bob Dylan
53. “Freedom is never given; it is won.”
— A. Philip Randolph
54. “America, to me, is freedom.”
— Willie Nelson
55. “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
— Albert Einstein
Aren’t those just the best happy 4th of July 2023 quotes?! We think so! And we hope you found the best Fourth of July captions and Independence Day quotes that perfectly encapsulate what living in the land of the free and the home of the brave means to you!
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