Quotes About Independence

Long experience, in the United States and in other advanced economies, has demonstrated that monetary policy is most successful when decisions are rendered independent of influence by elected officials.

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.

I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.

People are amazed to see that I wrote all the words and music myself to 'Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America.'

Israel must take decisions that are good to Israel. We must not try to satisfy anyone else, including our closest ally, the United States of America.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

With so many serious issues and responsibilities before the United States Senate, I think New York needs an independent senator who thinks for herself, not someone who just rubberstamps the Obama agenda or checks with Chuck Schumer and says, 'Me too.'

I have, year after year, been named the most bipartisan member of the whole United States Senate. I have proved my independence.

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

As I go through life, I can see why my mother directed me that way, or why my father counseled me in that way. But some things you're open to when you're young, and some things you need to find out for yourself. I think that that's pretty universal.

Freedom is a universal value.

I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

One of the guiding beliefs of our consuming age is that we are all free and independent individuals. That we can choose to do pretty much what we want, and if we can't, then it's bad. But at the same time, co-existing alongside this, there is a completely different, parallel universe where we all seem meekly to do what those in power tell us to do.