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)

“Auden, MacNeice, Day Lewis, I have read them all,
Hoping against hope to hear the authentic call . . .
And know the explanation I must pass is this
MYou cannot light a match on a crumbling wall.”
—Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)