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Quotes About Independence

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
~ Thomas Jefferson
She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.
~ Unknown
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
~ Stokely Carmichael
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~ Elmer Davis
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
~ Nelson Mandela
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
~ Ai Weiwei
The only security of all is in a free press.
~ Thomas Jefferson
People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
~ Bayard Rustin
Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.
~ John F. Kennedy
The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.
~ Sigurd F. Olson
I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.
~ Janet Frame
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
~ Unknown
No borders, just horizons - only freedom.
~ Amelia Earhart
I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery
~ Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
~ Millard Fillmore
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
~ Simon Wiesenthal
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
~ Dean Alfange
For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.
~ Jennifer Beals
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
~ Viktor E. Frankl