Independence Quotes
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Independence Quotes & Sayings
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To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
— Stanley Crawford
When you are independent you learn strategies of self empowerment
— Marcelle Hinkson
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.
— Sue Grafton
If you can think independently, you are the master of this universe.
— Debasish Mridha
A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin
— Sunday Adelaja
It all depends on how independent you are.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I remind myself that loving my sister means I have to step back and give her the dignity of independence.
— Bette Lee Crosby
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
— Ralph Ellison
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
— Daniel Webster
It's a cruel process, aging. Take my advice, dear, maintain your independence as long as possible.
— Jonathan Evison
I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.
— Thomas Naylor
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
— Kwame Nkrumah
I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.
— Alexandre Dumas
I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.
— Kristina Schroder
From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.
— Niall Ferguson
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
— Flannery O'Connor
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.
— Mike Crapo
A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.
— Rick Riordan
All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.
— Adam C. Engst
By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
— Claude Monet
I do need my independence. I have to have that.
— Carol Vorderman
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
— Walter Gilbert
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
— Ferdinand Mount
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
I am self-reliant, I am accountable, I am determined, I am strong, I am...the scarce minority.
— Thorin
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
— Ho Chi Minh
The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.
— Maria Montessori
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
— Alexander Hamilton
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Say That! is an iron fist upside the mushy head of smooth jazz, and Grant Geissman's defiant declaration of independence.
— Bill Milkowski
I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there
without help and nosy proclivities. — John Ashbery
This state of independence shall be!
— Jon Anderson
All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.
— Andy Borowitz
The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.
— Dmitry Pisarev
I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.
— Saul Alinsky
No one needs Independence. We all just need tea and air conditioners.
— Michelle Franklin
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That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
— John Burroughs
I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.
— Julie Berry
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
— Warren Farrell
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
— Harry S. Truman
The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.
— Richard Matheson
The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.
— Simone Weil
The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.
— Maria Montessori
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth
— Susan B. Anthony
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
— Josephine Tey
You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
I'm for economic independence.
— Charles Evers
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What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
— Edmund Morgan
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
— Albert Einstein
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
We will energize America by achieving energy independence
— Nancy Pelosi
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
— Ambrose Bierce
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
— Christina, Queen Of Sweden
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
— C.S. Lewis
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.
— Henry Ford
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
— John Piper
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
— Carl L. Becker
Americans who do not celebrate Independence Day: pets.
— Demetri Martin
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
— Thomas Szasz
Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.
— James H. Douglas Jr.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
— George Henry Lewes
In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....
— Ursula K. Le Guin
