Juneteenth Independence Day

Famous quotes containing the words independence and/or day:

    I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)