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Quotes About Independence

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
~ Lee Greenwood
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
~ Stephen Colbert
The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.
~ Adam Michnik
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
~ Henry David Thoreau
With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.
~ Ronald Reagan
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice.
~ Tom Petty
You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.
~ Sarah Palin
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
~ Will Rogers
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.
~ Richard Stallman
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
~ Ronald Reagan
I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
~ Rick Perry
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
~ Will Rogers
Revolutions are not made for export.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
~ Max Beerbohm
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.
~ Camille Paglia
Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.
~ Tom Petty
Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.
~ Joseph Farah
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
~ Henry George
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
~ Bob Dylan
Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.
~ Bob Dylan
Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith