Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

“We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)

“This is perhaps a day of general honesty
Without example in the world’s history....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)