Quotes for and about United States Independence Day (The 4th of July) In the true sense of the term, freedom can not be granted; it must be achieved. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The day of birth of freedom has arrived. Shoot the arms and cry to freedom, See the flag above deployed! Hi stars and stripes forever, Dear flag of the whole world. ~ Florence A. Jones The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consumption ... ~ Woodrow Wilson, 1915 Many older people suffer terrible headaches on July 4; but I suspect it does not bother them much, for in every puff of blue smoke that fades under their noses, they see the happy face of a boy or a girl. ~ William H. Rideing, "Biscuits and the 4th of July", 1874 United States, July 4 - This is the signal - the "banner on the outer wall" for sinners and shooters, pedantry and windmills, oranges and orations, sky blue toilets and open rockets. A day when patriotism appears and explodes like so many bottles of