Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“If you don’t appear
at all one day they think you’re lazy
or dead.”
—Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)