Century Park Blog

The anniversary of America’s independence is a time for celebration and gratitude for freedom. Today, we’re sure you and your family will take the time to indulge in your favortie BBQ sides, find the best spot to watch fireworks, and enjoy tons of festive activities, like parades and picnics. But the history and facts of the day are just as important. To help you honor that true meaning of the day, look to these 4th of July quotes.

Let this list of inspirational 4th of July quotes resonate with you and motivate you to help create a better America for future generations.

Winston Churchill
Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

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

Thomas Wolfe
America. It is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Theodore Roosevelt
I am an American, free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people.

Ronald Reagan
If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Thurgood Marshall
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

John Philip Sousa
The red and white and starry blue is freedom's shield and hope.

John F. Kennedy
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

Herbert Hoover
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Bob Dylan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Alexander Hamilton
Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.

Frederick Douglass
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Barack Obama
In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Condoleezza Rice
The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is — that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Harry S. Truman
America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.

George Washington
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.