2016-06-20



Need Independence Day Quotes?

Here are 57 at just the right length to tweet!

Celebrate freedom by scheduling a few of these 4th of July quotes.

Social media content includes short, tweetable quotes, and visual content – here in the form of picture quotes!

I love to make it, and share it with you, my readers. So if you don’t have time or talent to make your own quote graphics, you may share mine – as long as you link back to this post.

If you hover each image, you’ll see bright green buttons in the center for sharing to Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Your share will automatically link back to this post.

Don’t download or edit the quote images.

You’re free to copy and use the text quotes by pasting them into Twitter, or using them to make your own picture quotes. Just don’t use them on images you intend to sell.

Most of these are perfectly suitable as Memorial Day quotes, Labor Day quotes, Flag Day quotes, or any old patriotic quotes!

And they’re not all patriotic – some are just good freedom quotes. Enjoy!

57 Tweetable Independence Day Quotes

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition. ~Thomas Paine

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

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. ~Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men, and so it must be daily earned and refreshed. ~DDE

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

Freedom’s natal day is here. Fire the guns and shout for freedom, See the flag above unfurled! ~Florence A. Jones

Hail the stars and stripes forever, Dearest flag in all the world. ~Florence A. Jones

This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. ~LBJ

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Unknown

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~George Bernard Shaw

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

Men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls. ~Robert J. McCracken

If our country is worth dying for in time of war, it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Rousseau

I love my freedom. I love my America. ~Jessi Lane Adams

Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda

Where liberty dwells, there is my country. ~Benjamin Franklin

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ~George Bernard Shaw

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. ~Jim Morrison

And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. ~Lee Greenwood

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

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

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of! ~Thomas Jefferson

We fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. ~Paul Sweeney

From every mountain side, Let Freedom ring. ~Samuel F. Smith

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan

It is sweet to serve one’s country by deeds, and it is not absurd to serve her by words. ~Sallust

My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. ~Unknown

Freedom is not enough. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is never free. ~Unknown

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. ~Ronald Reagan

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal… ~Thomas Jefferson

Freedom lies in being bold. ~Robert Frost

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life. ~Bob Marley

Liberties aren’t given, they are taken. ~Aldous Huxley

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. ~James Madison

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ~MLK

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. ~Marquis de Lafayette

It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority. ~Samuel Adams

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless. ~Lech Walesa

Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils. ~General John Stark

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~Orwell

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ~John Basil Barnhill

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ~Ben Franklin

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. ~H.L. Mencken

Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan

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I’ve provided brief notes under each image as to whether I’ve made them in WordSwag or Over (links to iOS apps). Note that Over isn’t suitable for commercial use (read more).  For Over images, I’ve noted each type artist’s Instagram handle if you want to follow them there.

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And I’d love to know what resonated with you. Which is your favorite freedom quote or Independence Day quote?

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