Funny 4th Of July Quotes

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. ~ Jules Renard

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. ~ Stephen Colbert

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. ~ Dan Rather

No place better than Indiana on July 4th. Looking forward to a great weekend. ~ Joe

Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female. ~ Katy Perry

The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty. ~ George Will

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It's that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes it so compelling. People, places, events, times: we miss them, and there's a pleasure in the missing and a sadness in the love.
The feeling is most acute, sometimes cripplingly so, when we find ourselves longing for the moment we're in, the people we're actually with.
That nameless feeling, that sense of excruciating beauty, of pained happiness, is at the core of 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy). ~ Robert J. Wiersema

There was never a good war, or a bad peace. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I feel as though I have a balloon filled with 4th of July sparklers that is ready to explode inside my chest I want to be a firework to live my life blindingly bright and sparkling and then to go out quickly to burn for a short time but very brightly ~ Emilie Autumn

I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause. ~ William Shakespeare

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty. ~ Thomas Jefferson

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. ~ Gloria Stuart

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart. ~ Thomas Jefferson

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true. ~ Wendell Willkie

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us. ~ Benjamin Rush

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work. ~ Adam C. Engst

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the ... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all. ~ Thomas Jefferson

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so ~ Mark Twain

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. ~ Seneca The Younger

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

We are not just any nation. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives. ~ David Letterman

If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It could be a 4th of July picnic. ~ John Madden

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. ~ Patrick Henry

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. ~ Alexander Hamilton

The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific to the Atlantic - have always blown on free men. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity. ~ Jimmy Carter

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. ~ George Washington

Who is here so vile that will not love his country? ~ William Shakespeare

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~ Joseph Addison

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. ~ George Washington

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. ~ George Washington

O, beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain ... ~ Katharine Lee Bates

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. ~ George Washington

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. ~ John F. Kennedy

I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions. ~ Thomas Jefferson

It will be celebrated ... with pomp and parade ... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other. ~ John Adams

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence. ~ Nathan Hale