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Quotes About Independence

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
~ Will Durant
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
~ Susie Bright
Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.
~ John Adams
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
~ Tobias Smollett
There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
~ Tryon Edwards
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence
~ Deborah Tannen
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
~ David Bronstein
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.
~ James Joll
Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I too am a government.
~ Gustave Courbet
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
~ William Cobbett
He who is served is limited in his independence.
~ Maria Montessori
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
~ Patrick deWitt
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The child seeks for independence by means of work; an independence of body and mind.
~ Maria Montessori
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
~ William Barclay
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
~ Rutherford B. Hayes
All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
~ D. J. Enright
Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
~ Bassem Youssef
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
~ Alex Salmond