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Quotes About Independence

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.
~ Arin Paul
The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.
~ Robert Graves
I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence...
~ Peyton Manning
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
~ Will Rogers
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
~ Nathan McCall, Them
If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.
~ Hiroko Sakai
Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it
~ Miguel Syjuco
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.
~ Herman Melville
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
~ Stephen Covey
To say that there should be no immigration, yes, that is definitely contrary to the best values of America that were laid out in the Declaration of Independence and since.
~ Tim Kaine
Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.
~ Samuel Smiles
The mantra of independence was Satyagraha. And the warriors were Satyagrahis. The mantra of New Age India must be Swachhagrah. And the warriors will be Swachhagrahis.
~ Narendra Modi
I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.
~ Dalai Lama
What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.
~ Rem Koolhaas
In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.
~ Noam Chomsky
The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
~ Claude Bernard
The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.
~ Keith Ferrazzi