Independence Quotes

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

In case Japan ventures to attack the Mongolian People's Republic, seeking to destroy its independence, we will have to assist the Mongolian People's Republic.

We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

Follow your own weird.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Boston is large enough to learn your independence and small enough to make your own.

No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

Strength and independence are always something that I'm drawn to in all my characters, no matter how different they are from one another.

Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

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

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.'

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.