Quotes About Independence

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on the Bank of England. Ben Franklin said that one of the main reasons America revolted was to get away from the Bank of England, the mother of all central banks - the most pernicious and insidious of all.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

I will be dictated to by nobody. I'm the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don't like it, change the station.

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

I'm not Hans Christian Anderson. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay?

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Always protect yourself. Every woman, no matter what her age, romantic or marital status, should have a bank account in her own name.

I am not arguing that women ought to 'settle.' I am arguing that we can now expect more of a mate than we could when we depended on men for our financial security, social status, and sense of accomplishment.

Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people.

We should, through civic referendums, determine our own pathways and political status after 2047, because in this lies the future of our democratic movement. If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.

For the last 25 years, myself and everybody in UKIP has worked to restore our country's former status as an independent, democratic nation that is governed by our politicians, elected by us, sackable by us, in accordance with our laws and customs and constitution.

I'm just divorced and wish to enjoy my single status.