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)

    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it
    was said, There is a man child conceived.
    Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 3)