"Independence Day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Independence Day without Independence! The liberty of the seas denied us for the peaceful Commerce of our entire land and granted us only for the murderous trafficking of a ...
— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman
... adoption of the constitution (May 17), the king thought he saw in this a sign of a disloyal spirit, because they did not rather celebrate the day of their union with Sweden, and he forbade the public celebration of the day. The result of this was that "Independence Day" was celebrated with so much greater eagerness. The students at the university especially took an active part under the leadership of that champion of liberty, the poet Henrik Wergeland, who died in 1845. The unwise prohibition was the cause of the "market-place ...
— Norwegian Life • Ethlyn T. Clough
... Independence Day Sammy stood at the door of the farmhouse arrayed in his Sunday best. His folks were there ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... Independence Day dawned bright and clear and throughout the town of Fairview there was the usual amount of noise. During the morning Snap heard from another lad how Ham and Carl were ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... sudden thunder-storm of Independence Day," says a news correspondent, "we were struck by the contrast between two women, each of whom had had some trying experience with the weather. One came through the rain and hail to take refuge at the railway station, under the swaying and uncertain shelter ...
— Cheerfulness as a Life Power • Orison Swett Marden
... America's Independence day, 1918, was officially celebrated in England, France, and Italy, as well as in the United States, making it a truly historic occasion. On that day Americans assisted the Australians in taking Hamel with many prisoners. On the 8th and 9th the French advanced in the region of Longpont and northwest ...
— America's War for Humanity • Thomas Herbert Russell
... said Winthrop, "You get your holidays mixed up. We've come out here to celebrate Independence Day. See what I've brought." ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... Council Bluffs with pay checks the Battalion members were sending back toward the support of their families. The two messengers had overtaken the Battalion at the Arkansas crossing. But Beadle slept safely in Lee's house, which he left on Independence Day, departing by way of ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock
... Independence Day, July 4, 1917, is the occasion for two demonstrations in the name of liberty. Champ Clark, late Democratic speaker of the House, is declaiming to a cheering crowd behind the White House, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." In front of the White House ...
— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens
... the fourth of July last. Grim sarcasm is it not, that the child of Independence Day should be locked up ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... INDEPENDENCE DAY, a holiday observed throughout the United States annually on the 4th of July in celebration of the Declaration of ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... Fourth of July the officers produced the ship's full supply of flags, and the sailors climbed high and low, fastening them to every rope till we had a very gay Independence day appearance. In this gay dress we steamed into San Diego harbor to leave the mail for a few soldiers stationed there, and get their letters ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly |
