Founding fathers Quote by Stan Van Gundy

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That…

— David Cameron

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

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would…

— Fidel Castro

Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that…

— Mahathir Mohamad

Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly…

— Abhijit Banerjee

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the…

— Jimmy Carter

Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen.…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski

“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom of man…

— Joseph Lewis

Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened.…

— M. S. Golwalkar

We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not…

— Anonymous