Inspiring 4th of July Patriotic Quotes and Saying for American Independence Day

America’s Independence Day is a moment to celebrate and express thanks for freedom. When the 4th of July approaches this year, we’re confident you and your family will take the time to eat your favorite BBQ sides, find the finest site to see fireworks, and participate in a variety of festive events such as parades and picnics. But the history and events of the day are as significant. To help you respect the genuine essence of the day, check out these finest patriotic 4th of July quotes.

We added Founding Father quotes, patriotic song samples, and even one-liners from famous all-American flicks. Whether you’re looking for something short and sweet to post to your group chat or a nice caption to put on Instagram, you’ll be glad you browsed this list first.

Best 4th of July Quotes

• Winston Churchill- Americans always try to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else.
• Camila Alves- People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story. That is not who we are. That’s not our America. Our United States of America is not about us versus them. It’s about we the people!
• William Faulkner- We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
• Thomas Wolfe- America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
• Theodore Roosevelt- 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.
• Thomas Paine- Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like me, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg- America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.
• Ronald Reagan- If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
• Rudyard Kipling-All we use or know — this our fathers bought for us long ago.
• Margaret Thatcher- Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
• Moshe Dayan- Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
• Thurgood Marshall- Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
• John Philip Sousa- The red and white and starry blue is freedom’s shield and hope.
• Lech Walesa- We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid because freedom is priceless.
• John F. Kennedy- Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
• Herbert Hoover- Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
• Jessi Lane Adams- I love my freedom. I love my America.
• Harry Emerson Fosdick- Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Patriotic 4th of July quotes and Saying

• “America is a tune. It must be sung together.” — Gerald Stanley Lee
• “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
• “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 is the breath of life to nations.” — George Bernard Shaw
• “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” — Marsha P. Johnson
• “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, “Only in America”
• “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “That’s the promise of tomorrow — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.” — Barack Obama
• “Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.” — Albert Camus
• “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” — Barack Obama
• “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy
• “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
• “Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry, and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people.” — George Washington
• “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
• “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
• “Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes.” — Samuel Sherwood
• “Happy 4th of July! This country of immigrants, religious refugees, outcasts and dreamers has come a long way. Let’s keep going.” — Ellen DeGeneres

Funny 4th of July Quotes

• “Oh my god, you look like the Fourth of July! Makes me want a hot dog real bad.” — Jennifer Coolidge as Paulette Parcelle, “Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde”
• “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
• “It’s Fourth of July weekend, or as I call it, exploding Christmas.” — Stephen Colbert
• “Never miss a party … good for the nerves — like celery.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
•  “Just found out that every Fourth of July, the British celebrate, ‘We Dodged a Bullet Day.’” — Conan O’Brien
• “Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell
• “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!” — Harry Connick Jr. as Captain Jimmy Wilder, “Independence Day”

Short Fourth of July quotes

• “We shall go wild with fireworks … And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness.” — Natsuki Takaya
• “America is another name for opportunity.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can’t go hand in hand, I don’t want to go.” — Hazel Scott
• “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.” — Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”
• “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” — Elmer Davis
•  “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “All great change in America begins at the dinner table.” — Ronald Reagan
• “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
• “It is impossible to conquer a nation determined to be free!” — Thomas Paine
•  “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” — Nathan Hale
• “Liberty has been planted here; and the more it is attacked, the more it grows and flourishes.” — Samuel Sherwood

Inspiring 4th of July quotes

•  “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 
• “July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It’s like the time you said I love you madly. That was an hour ago. It’s been a fervent year.” — Frederick Seidel
• “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
• “In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.” — Amy Tan, “The Joy Luck Club”
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.” — James Bryce
• “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
• “History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.” — Lin Manuel Miranda
•  “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
• “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
• “Happy 4th of July! As you take this day to honor America, ask yourself, “Why am I not honoring America on the other 364 days? Shame on me.” — Stephen Colbert
• “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, “The American Flag”
• “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
• “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
• “Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.” — Marquis de Lafayette

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