Quotes About Independence

What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its independence.

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I think my boyfriend wants his freedom.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.