Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“[T]hat moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that the constraint of day and the suspense of night neutralize each other, leaving absolute mental liberty. It is then that the plight of being alive becomes attenuated to its least possible dimensions.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)