Independence Day November

Famous quotes containing the words independence, day and/or november:

    “We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.”
    —Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)

    “If you don’t appear
    at all one day they think you’re lazy
    or dead.”
    —Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)

    “In that November off Tehuantepec,
    The slopping of the sea grew still one night
    And in the morning summer hued the deck

    And made one think of rosy chocolate
    And gilt umbrellas.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)