It's 4th of July finally, the red, blue and white day we have been waiting for.

I know you already have special plans for the holiday and while you are busy barbecuing and enjoying your time with your loved ones, it's not good of us to interrupt your celebrations and appreciation of the freedom we all enjoy every day.

So coming to the point, here is a collection of 30 inspiring quotes about freedom and independence that'll definitely appease the patriot in you.

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

"Where liberty dwells, there is my country."

"May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!"

"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave."

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

"Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it."

"If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace."

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."

"We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit."

"It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism."

"Let freedom never perish in your hands."

"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall."

"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"Freedom is not enough."

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'."

"Without freedom, no one really has a name."

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy."

"For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?"

"We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths."

"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls."

"All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."

"It is sweet to serve one's country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words."

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom."

"My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"Freedom is never free."

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

Three cheers for the red, blue and white. Have a great 4th of July and enjoy the holiday :)

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