Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

“The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)