Independence Quotes

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

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

I too am a government.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

He who is served is limited in his independence.

The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.