Quotes About Independence

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

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.

I testify that I am free and alive when I am forgotten

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Rather free than rich

Good works" are those works that have their origin in Jesus Christ--whose activity is released through your body, presented to Him as a living sacrifice by a faith that expresses total dependence, as opposed to the Adamic independence (Rom. 12:1, 2).

All I have to do is say the word and no record label will ever touch Bad Luck. You'll be out of business faster than the fat one from N'Sync.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.

My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

We may rely on others and turn to others for help, but ultimately our answers come from within.

It's good to be strong by yourself," he murmured. "But it's even better to be strong together." Eva knew she could do it alone and that knowledge was enough.

But as a woman? I feel like dry goods on the shelf of a life put on hold. More than anything, I want to sink my teeth into it and taste all that I can." If only she could taste Urich, mmm, mmm. "Maybe even some forbidden fruit," she added with a wistful sigh.

Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.

I continued to find it much easier to assimilate knowledge within the structured military environment than at college, for at training sites such as Mare Island, outside influences were kept to a minimum.  All I had to do was make my bunk in the morning, show up at the appointed classrooms, and focus on the subject at hand.  Others took care of the daily routine of life while we hit the books.

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action.

They will always allow it. It's only men who need ownership. The gods allow more freedom.