Quotes About Independence

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Freedom and independence is my character.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.