Happy USA Independence Day: Significant, History, Quotes, and Wishes
Happy USA Independence Day: Independence Day, also called Fourth of July or July 4th, in the United States, the annual celebration of nationhood. It commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
Independence Day represents so much about the American story: freedom, bravery, patriotism, and of course the summer celebrations with family and friends. Fortunately, our forefathers and other witty wordsmiths have done a lot of the work for us by originating the quotes that are meaningful and instantly relatable to those you want to share the Fourth of July holiday with. A picture may say a thousand words, but the best quotes will make your 4th of July truly memorable.
Happy USA Independence Day History
Many of us celebrate the Fourth of July every year with fireworks, barbecues, concerts and parades. Growing up, you may have heard that we celebrate Independence Day on July 4 because that’s the day the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, but that’s not technically true! Although the Declaration was adopted on July 4, 1776, it wasn’t signed by most people until a month later.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of declaring independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was officially adopted two days later, marked by the ringing of the Liberty Bell at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.At the time, John Adams believed that July 2, not July 4, would be the date remembered by history.
“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America,” Adams wrote in a letter to his wife on July 3 of that year. “I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.”
Happy USA Independence Day Quotes
“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.” – Erma Bombeck
“Independence Day: 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.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” – John Adams
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” – John Dickinson
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” – Wendell L. Wilkie
“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. – Robert J. McCracken
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” – Elmer Davis
“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” – George Washington
“Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – William Faulkner
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” – James Madison
“Liberty is the breath of life to nations.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.” – James G. Blaine
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”— Gerald Stanley Lee
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” – Wendell L. Wilkie
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”— Sinclair Lewis
“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.” — Robert J. McCracken
“Laughter is America’s most important export.”— Walt Disney
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” — Barack Obama
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”—Patrick Henry
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.” – Abraham Lincoln
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“My favorite thing about the United States? Lots of Americans, one America.” – Val Saintsburt
“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
“America means opportunity, freedom, power.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snow capped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” —Edward Abbey
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy