Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

    The Indian’s intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    O he did whistle and she did sing,
    And all the bells on earth did ring
    For joy our Saviour Christ was born
    On Christmas Day in the morning.
    —Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

    Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)