Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)