Independence Quotes

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Financial independence is about having more choices.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven’t been.

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

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 Virginia.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I'm a product of Wonder Woman comic books

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.

A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

I don't know you could do a whole film about Dr. Okun from Independence Day.

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Network marketing has come of age. It's undeniable that it has become a way to entrepreneurship and independence for millions of people

Interdependency follows independence.

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom

I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

This state of independence shall be!

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?