Independence Day November

Famous quotes containing the words independence, day and/or november:

    “To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Every day or two I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homoeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In that November off Tehuantepec,
    The slopping of the sea grew still one night
    And in the morning summer hued the deck

    And made one think of rosy chocolate
    And gilt umbrellas.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)