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)

“To lift, to fetch, to drive, to shed, to pen,
Are acts I recognize, with all they mean
Of shepherding the unruly, for a kind of
Controlled woolgathering is my work too.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)