Independence Quotes

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

It's still the White House exploding [in "Independence Day"]. It was just so provocative, and no one had ever done it before. I remember when we shot it, how everyone was excited.

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

The Keystone pipeline would add to our domestic supply. It would help us with energy independence.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence.

Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth

Don't always come when you're called.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.

More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.

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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.

I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir

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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.