Independence Quotes

The revolution will not be televised.

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

Freedom and independence is my character.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

Damn, I can't wait until it get dark, So I can light these fireworks up at the park, And celebrate my independence, It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?