Quotes About Independence

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.-Thomas Jefferson

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.