Quotes About Independence

I remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's old cookbooks. I approached it in a very unafraid way, and produced a rather beautiful one.

Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

For any unbiased and realistic enquiry against judges, one needs a full time body, independent of the government as well as of the judiciary, with an investigative machinery under its control, through which it can get complaints investigated.

We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

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

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.