In anticipation of the 4th, some Shakespearean quotations

to spice up your celebration (courtesy of the American Shakespeare Center):

• I am a foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.
  Julius Caesar: V.iv.
• I do love my country’s good with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than mine own life.
  Coriolanus: III.iii
• In right and service to their noble country.
  Titus Andronicus: I,i
• Who is here so vile that will not love his country?
  Julius Caesar: III,iii
• I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
  Titus Andronicus: I,i
• Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.
  Richard II: I,ii
• Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain’d my freedom.
  The Comedy of Errors: V,i
• Let’s all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!
  Julius Caesar III,i
• This liberty is all that I request.
  The Taming of the Shrew: II,i
• Leave us to our free election.
  Pericles, Prince of Tyre: II,iv

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