Quotes About Independence

Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

They don't want a princess. They want a war queen.

Fear no one nor kneel before themFor many seek to be your god and masterAnd you sacrificial lamb in their fevered plansAnd insane ambitionsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

You must be a light unto yourself.

Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you.

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.

Going back to South Sudan after the independence took place was deeply emotional for me because I had gone through the civil war with my family just before going to seek refuge in London.

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.

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

America takes credit for giving you freedom that you had anyway. It's like going to a wedding and putting your tag on somebody elses box.

On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

A divorce party - that's really better than a wedding party

I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Don't say a woman is crazy just because she runs away from her wedding.

I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just rememeber two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.