Quotes About Independence

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation.

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody who's got the power to fire me if my underwear doesn't make it all the way to the hamper." She repressed a smile. "I'm sympathetic to your problem, but I'm not selling the team just so you can be a slob." "Somehow I didn't expect you would.

If you think I'm going to cry all over your chest because you don't feel the same way, you're wrong. I don't beg for anybody's love.

Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?" Her eyes bore into his without flinching. "Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?

I'll take care of my mother," he said grimly. "I love her, but she doesn't run my life." "Yeah, that's what we all say. You. Me. Lucy." She stabbed the stick into the dirt. "These are powerful women. They're sane, they're smart, they rule their worlds, and they love us ferociously. A potent combination that makes it touch to pretend they're normal mothers.