Quotes About Independence

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.

There are tradeoffs between independence and co-operation, between regulatory autonomy and market access. This means that compromises are necessary to deliver a pragmatic Brexit that protects jobs and living standards while respecting the referendum result.

It may sound funny to others, but there is a sense of freedom when I am able to live on my own, and as per my own set standards.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone?

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

Every relationship stands on its own, and it's successful or not successful for its own reason.