As July 4 nears, it's time to think about fireworks, barbecue, and all things patriotic! Once you've snapped photos at all your Independence Day festivities, it's time to share them on Instagram, but what to write to go with them? Here we give you 125 4th of July captions to inspire your posts.

Whether you are looking for a funny pun for your friends to read or a more sentimental set of words to share for a business account, we have tons of short sayings for your celebration of America this year. Make sure you take plenty of pictures of all your red, white, and blue decorations and your feast from the drinks to the 4th of July appetizers, plus any other summertime festivities.

In addition to our comical captions, we're got song lyrics by artists like Miley Cyrus and Tom Petty and quotes by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson ("America is another name for opportunity" ) and Benjamin Franklin ("Where liberty dwells, there is my country") for your posts.

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Now time for all the fun and puns to celebrate the U.S. of YAY!

Funny 4th of July Captions

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  • These colors don't run!
  • America: Home of the over-the-top fireworks display.
  • Just another photo of fireworks for your feed.
  • Have fun at work tomorrow, England.
  • The British blew a 13-colony lead.
  • America, where the only king is the grill king.
  • Current mood: cue the sparklers.
  • Stay fly, it's the 4th of July!
  • "You're welcome." – George Washington
  • Partying like it's 1776.
  • Too cool for British rule.
  • Bye, bye to my sweet apple pie.
  • Pretty sure I was a sparkler in another life.
  • Trying to apply for a professional Fourth of July party crasher position. Need references.
  • Have a Yankee doodle day!
  • Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of freedom ringing.
  • Grill, or it didn't happen.
  • Do you even grill, bro?
  • I'm just here for the BBQ.
  • I WANT YOU ... to like this photo
  • It's not the 4th of July until I'm holding a hotdog.
  • Party like a patriot.
  • Rosé in the U.S.A.
  • "The party don't start 'til I walk in." — Kesha
  • Sun's out, (hot dog) buns out.
  • I like my coffee black and my tea in the harbor.
  • Chill out, grill out.

4th of July Puns for Instagram

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  • Sippin' on liber-tea.
  • U.S. of YAY.
  • Red, white, and brew.
  • Why are there not any knock-knock jokes about America? Because freedom rings.
  • Don't hate U.S. 'cause you ain't U.S.
  • Did you hear the joke about the Liberty Bell? It'll crack you up.
  • June is already over? Julyin!
  • Let's indepen-dance!
  • May the Fourth be with you.

Patriotic 4th of July Captions

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  • Happy birthday, America!
  • My heart beats red, white, and blue.
  • America because, where else?
  • Land of the free, because of the brave.
  • American dreamin'.
  • Bold stripes, bright stars, brave hearts.
  • Let freedom ring!
  • HBD to my favorite country.
  • Proud to be an American.
  • Sweet land of liberty.
  • God bless America.
  • Freedom is never free.
  • Don't mess with 'Merica.
  • Made in America.
  • Home of the brave since 1776.
  • Unapologetically American.
  • Give me liberty or give me death.
  • There is nothing in this world that tastes better than freedom.
  • Talk about a birthday party!
  • With liberty and justice for all.
  • O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain!
  • I'm proud to be an American.
  • America the beautiful.
  • 'Cause the flag still stands for freedom.
  • This land was made for you and me.
  • There's no dream like the American dream.
  • One flag, one land, one nation.

Fireworks-Inspired 4th of July Captions

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  • It's lit.
  • Baby, you're a firework.
  • Snap, crackle, and pop.
  • Freedom and fireworks.
  • Light up the sky on the 4th of July.
  • Talk about a glow up.
  • Red, white, and sparkly.
  • Sparkle like it's 1776.
  • Family, fireworks and the fourth of July.
  • Flip-flops, fireworks and freedom.
  • Celebrate with a bang!
  • Did it even happen if I don't post a fireworks pic?
  • There's no such thing as too many sparklers.
  • Shining like fireworks.
  • Sparkle on!
  • "Let your colors burst." — Katy Perry
  • "Light up the night sky!" — In the Heights
  • "It's 4th of July weekend, or, as I like to call it exploding Christmas." — Stephen Colbert

4th of July Captions for the 21 and Up Crowd

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  • Drinkin' like Lincoln
  • Red, white, and brew
  • I like my beer cold, my coffee black, and my tea in the harbor.
  • Red, wine, and blue
  • Benjamin Drankin'
  • Star-spangled hammered
  • My dietary request for your Fourth of July BBQ is wine, please.
  • Rosé in the U.S.A. Four score and 7 beers ago…
  • Fireball and fireworks.
  • Red, white claws, and... what comes next?
  • Four score and seven beers ago.

Song Lyrics for 4th of July Captions

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  • "Just another American Saturday night." — Brad Paisley
  • "Born in the U.S.A." — Bruce Springsteen
  • "On second thought, I do like to brag...'Cause I’m mighty proud of the ragged old flag." — Johnny Cash
  • "Look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now." — Hamilton
  • "This land was made for you and me." — Woody Guthrie
  • "It’s a party in the U.S.A." — Miley Cyrus
  • "You could say we've always been red, white, and blue." — Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • "I’m just living out the American dream." — Madonna
  • "We'll put a boot in your a**, it's the American way." — Toby Keith
  • "She was an American girl." — Tom Petty
  • "I thank God for my life, and for the stars and stripes." — Zac Brown
  • "Our love was made in the U.S.A." — Demi Lovato
  • "We’re the kids in America." — Kim Wilde
  • "She's a good girl, loves her mama. Loves Jesus and America too." — Tom Petty
  • "Brought to you courtesy of the red, white, and blue." — Toby Keith
  • "It's a high school prom, it's a Springsteen song, it's a ride in a Chevrolet. It's a man on the moon and fireflies in June and kids sellin' lemonade. It's cities and farms, it's open arms, one nation under God. It's America." — Rodney Atkins
  • "Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away." — Hamilton
  • "Dreams can grow wild born inside an American child." — Phil Vassar
  • "Own the night like the fourth of July. 'Cause baby. you're a firework." — Katie Perry
  • "I thank God for my life and for the stars and stripes." — Zac Brown
  • "'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land, God bless the U.S.A." — Lee Greenwood
  • "America! America! God shed his grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" — Katharine Lee Bates
  • "You're the emblem of the land I love, the home of the free and the brave." — George M. Cohan
  • "I guess that's why they call it God's country." — Blake Shelton
  • "Cause I'm mighty proud of the ragged old flag." — Johnny Cash
  • "I'm shining like fireworks." — Taylor Swift
  • "Oh, sweet freedom, may you stay in our land and lives always." —Dolly Parton
  • "It was twilight on the Fourth of July, sparkling colors were strewn across the sky." — Mariah Carey
  • "Nothin' sweeter than summertime and American honey." —Lady A

Quotes for 4th of July Captions

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  • "We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something—for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to." — Ronald Reagan
  • "Freedom lies in being bold." — Robert Frost
  • "America is another name for opportunity." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." — Albert Camus
  • "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." — John F. Kennedy
  • "Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go." — Hazel Scott
  • "I love my freedom. I love my America." — Jessi Lane Adams
  • "America is a tune. It must be sung together." — Gerald Stanley Lee
  • "I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom." — Martin Luther King Jr.
  • "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." — Frederick Douglass

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  • "America, to me, is freedom." — Willie Nelson
  • "Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." — Adlai Stevenson
  • "America is a tune. It must be sung together." — Gerald Stanley Lee
  • "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" — Oscar Wilde
  • "One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation forevermore!" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." — Peter Marshall
  • "This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." — Elmer Davis
  • "Liberty is the breath of life to nations." — George Bernard Shaw
  • "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." — Benjamin Franklin
  • "The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults." — Alexis de Tocqueville
  • "God bless America, my home, sweet home." — Irving Berlin
  • "Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong." — James Bryce
  • "I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home." — Henry James
  • "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one nation evermore!" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • “Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” — Coretta Scott King
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