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In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, picnics, concerts, baseball games, political speeches and ceremonies, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Independence Day is the national day of the United States. – Wikipedia.

Some Quotes on Independence day [ Fourth of July ]

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

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, 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

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

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

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.  ~Curtis Billings

Freedom’s natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail the stars and stripes forever,
Dearest flag in all the world.
~Florence A. Jones

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.  ~Thomas Paine

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

This, then, is the state of the union:  free and restless, growing and full of hope.  So it was in the beginning.  So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.  ~Lyndon B. Johnson

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

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.  ~John Burroughs, Journal

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.  ~Louis D. Brandeis

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.  ~Dick Cheney

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

America is much more than a geographical fact.  It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.  ~Adlai Stevenson

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

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

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.  ~Hamilton Fish

Liberty means responsibility.  That is why most men dread it.  ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Liberty and Equality,” 1905

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.  ~J. Horace McFarland

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

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

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

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.  The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.  ~Thomas Macaulay

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

My God!  How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!  ~Thomas Jefferson

What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom “to” and freedom “from.”  ~Marilyn vos Savant, in Parade

How often 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, “America”

We need an America with the wisdom of experience.  But we must not let America grow old in spirit.  ~Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.  ~Moshe Dayan

And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
~Lee Greenwood

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.  ~Author Unknown

Freedom is not enough.  ~Lyndon B. Johnson

We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.  ~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914

Freedom is never free.  ~Author Unknown

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is
right with America.  ~William J. Clinton

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.  ~Author Unknown

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.
~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899

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Memorial Day Quotes

• For love of country they accepted death…  ~James A. Garfield
• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.  ~William Penn
• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.  ~Benjamin Disraeli
• On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!  ~Thomas William Parsons
• Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.  ~Daniel Webster
• With the tears a Land hath shed, Their graves should ever be green. ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language?  Are they dead that yet act?  Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?  ~Henry Ward Beecher
• Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells, A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. ~James Gates Percival
• They fell, but o’er their glorious grave, Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save. ~Francis Marion Crawford
• Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.  ~From a headstone in Ireland
  Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!  There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold. ~Rupert Brooke
• The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men. ~Minot J. Savage
• And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me. ~Lee Greenwood
• Is’t death to fall for Freedom’s right? He’s dead alone who lacks her light!  ~Thomas Campbell
• They are dead; but they live in each Patriot’s breast, And their names are engraven on honor’s bright crest. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth… ~Thomas Moore
• But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. ~Thomas Dunn English
• The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.  ~Thomas Campbell
• Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays…. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.  ~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Better than honor and glory, and History’s iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. ~Richard Watson Gilder
• We who are left how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain? ~Wilfred Wilson Gibson
• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.  ~Joseph Campbell
• Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. ~Wallace Bruce
• And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.  ~Joseph Drake
• Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes – Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.  ~W.J. Cameron
• Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day, Sleeping the years of their manhood away.
  Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life.~Will Carleton
• Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!  ~Lucy Larcom
• All we have of freedom, all we use or know – This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. ~Rudyard Kipling, The Old Issue, 1899
  Our battle-fields, safe in the keeping Of Nature’s kind, fostering care, Are blooming, – our heroes are sleeping, – And peace broods perennial there. ~John H. Jewett
• These heroes are dead.  They died for liberty – they died for us.  They are at rest.  They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines.  They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless Place of Rest.  Earth may run red with other wars – they are at peace.  In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death.  I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead:  cheers for the living; tears for the dead.  ~Robert G. Ingersoll
• The dead soldier’s silence sings our national anthem.  ~Aaron Kilbourn
• Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, Lilies and laurels over them we lay, And violets o’er each unforgotten head. ~Richard Hovey
• But fame is theirs – and future days. On pillar’d brass shall tell their praise;  Shall tell – when cold neglect is dead – “These for their country fought and bled.” ~Philip Freneau
• Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.  ~John A. Logan
• We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them.  ~Francis A. Walker
• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!  ~Maya Angelou
• Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The story of America’s quest for freedom is inscribed on her history in the blood of her patriots.  ~Randy Vader
• Spirit, that made those heroes dare,  To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Alas, how can we help but mourn, When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear, But once the flower of such a death. ~S. Weir Mitchell
• Their silent wounds have speech, More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen. ~William Woodman
• Their own souls rose and cried,  Alarum when they heard the sudden wail, Of stricken freedom and along the gale, Saw her eternal banner quivering wide. ~John LeGay Brereton
• They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.  ~Henry Ward Beecher
• These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.  ~Schuyler Colfax
• They saw their injured country’s woe; The flaming town, the wasted field; Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, – but left the shield. ~Philip Freneau
• Ah! never shall the land forget, How gushed the life-blood of her brave – ~William Cullen Bryant
• “Dead upon the field of glory,” Hero fit for song and story. ~John Randolph Thompason
• Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause, Of justice absolute ‘twixt man and man. ~Richard Watson Gilder
• Fold him in his country’s stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly? ~George Henry Boker
• The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight. ~Rupert Hughes
• The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part. ~Charles Sangster

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I wish you all a very Happiest Ever new year .Enjoy your lyf till the last drop of the bottle and before DOOMS DAY Just Kidding I dont know what happens on that day exactly but i m planning to finish of my short term goals before that day .What ever Happens ..its not in our hands.Only thing we can do NOW is celebrating 2DAY … Lets come out of that Mystry and start our celebrations for NEW YEAR.

I collected some quotes on New Year Eve. Have a Look at these.

• Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.  ~Oprah Winfrey
• Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.  ~Author Unknown
• Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve.  Middle age is when you’re forced to.  ~Bill Vaughn
• An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan
• It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.  ~William Thomas
• Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.  ~Benjamin Franklin
• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.  It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.  It is the nativity of our common Adam.  ~Charles Lamb
• New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.  ~Charles Lamb
• Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.  ~Hal Borland
• The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
  ~Hartley Coleridge
• The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!  ~Edward Payson Powell
• New Year’s Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.  ~Mark Twain
• Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.  ~Brooks Atkinson
• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.  ~Oscar Wilde
• Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter
• New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~ Mark Twain
• We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.~  Edith Lovejoy Pierce

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“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!”

Albert Einstein

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“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!”

French scholar Romaine Rolland
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“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!”

“So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.”

Mark Twain

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“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!”

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

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“Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another…But mark you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood….. Each word of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist… Even earlier, when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live….!”

Swami Vivekananda, Great Indian Philosopher

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“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India”

Max Mueller
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“India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”

Will Durant
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“In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing”

Apollonius Tyanaeus

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These are some of the good quotes that I felt are very much strong in conveying the actual idea in simple but perfect words and illustrations by many Great poeple.
I have added some of mine too !!, the ones in Red in the middle.

• Dont Think U R!! Know You Are!! – What are u waiting for?
• Some pursue happiness. Others create it!!
• It is a pity that we sell shoes in air-conditioned showrooms and food grains on the footpath
• Be prepared – luck is where preparation meets opportunity !
• Our people should be willing to approach a policeman with the same assurance with which they visit a doctor!!!!
• The smallest monority today in our country is “Indian”
• The happiest people don’t have the best of everything but they make the best of everything
• A Hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer!
• Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear
• You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness
• It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities
• Happiness is permanent. It is always there. what comes and goes is unhappiness
• Self-confidence is the first requisite for great under takings
• A ship in a harbour is safe but it is not what the ships are built for!
• Life Laughs at you when u r unhappy, life smiles at u when ur happy, but life salutes u when u make others happy!!
• Fear is only as deep as the mind allows
• I shut my eyes in order to see!
• Live today with the dreams of yesterday to win tomorrow
• Man Says – ‘Trust God and You Will Win’, but God Says – ‘Trust Yourself and You have already Won!’
• We think that we can do anything, but we dont believe it!
• ‘Whatever comes ur way – u take it’, and ‘whatever doesnt come ur way – U make it!’
  
• Solutions to most difficult problems come when we think ‘out of the box’, solutions to all the problems comes when we think that ‘there is no box at all!’
• Dream is not what you see while sleeping …its the thing which does not let you sleep!!
  
• “Im telling u not bcoz u dont know, but to remind u that u know!”
• The mark of a happy and successful person is how quickly one can get one’s focus back to what is important
• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
• ‘Fate Determines Who Comes Into Our Lives, But Heart Determines Who Stays….
• Winning doesn’t always mean being first, winning means you are doing better than you have done before!
• Nothing in this world is sweeter than the knowledge that we have been able to give a moment’s happiness to another, nothing more precious than the sense that we have shared another’s sorrow!!!
• I will not say i have failed 1000 times, i will say that i found there are 1000 ways that can cause failure
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself!!!
• Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world, if you are doing that, you are insulting yourself!!!!
• The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom!!
• You dont love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because u love her.
• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see the beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness
• There is a great difference between knowing the path and walking the path!!
• There are two ways to live your life – One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is!!!
• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give
• I am very sorry, batikeede okkasari, padi mandikaina chupalooyi chakkani daari! (Telugu)
  
• Neerallee vundali , andari daaham teerchali, anicheste muncheyyali lee…. neelalle vundali andari bhaaram moyaali, visikistee bhukampalee chupalee..
• pursu nindenta dabbundali…manishi batikendukuuu….manchi vadokkadu toodundali…nee manasu batikenduku….!!
• Andamaina E Jeevitaaniki O artham vetakaloyi, koti mandi lo potu gadila nuvve batakaloy…
• aadu aadinchu, paadu paadinchu, navvu navvinchu, nuvvu naduvu nadipinchu!!
• Cheyyi vundi neeku cheeyi kalipeetandukee..chupunnadi inkokariki dari chupeetanduke..maata vundi neeku maata ichetanduke..manasunnadi aa maatanu neraverchetandukee..!!
• Chinna chinna vatike badhapadadam kaadu sensitiveness ante, chinna chinna vatiki kuda santoshincha
  dam Sensitiveness…
  
• and the last one..”ekkadinunchi techamannadi kaadu annayya important – raasama leda adi important”

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