Quotes About Independence

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

I thank God that I have lived to see my country independent and free. She may long enjoy her independence and freedom if she will. It depends on her virtue.

We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who cannot live without working and being active.

I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.