Independence Quotes

• When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.

  

  Al Jaffee
  • Anxiety
  • Independence
  • Cartoonist

• 9/11 was a signal that we were living in a new world - a world of interdependence, a world in which people could attack the United States not from the outside, but from the inside. It was a sign that the United States, the most powerful country in the world, could watch the cathedral of capitalism at the Trade Center and the heart of its defense at the Pentagon be struck internally, not really across borders, so that borders don't matter anymore.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • United States
  • Capitalism
  • Pentagon

• If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

  

  George Washington
  • Support
  • Party
  • Mean

• For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete independence, and the beauty of undefiled panoramas is absolutely essential to happiness.

  

  Bob Marshall
  • Important
  • Desire
  • Passion

• We . . . declared our independence 200 years ago, and we are not about to lose it now to paper shufflers and computers.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Lose
  • Independence
  • Shufflers

• The more fiercely the Confederacy fought for its independence, the more bitterly divided it became.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Independence
  • Divided
  • Confederacy

• Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto myself. I am seceding from the human race.

  

  Eric Gamalinda
  • Happiness
  • Human Race
  • Republic

• Western, individualistic culture invites us to embrace our independence and champion our ability to do this all on our own, but the life of Jesus invites us to embrace a healthy interdependency on others. The radical message of Jesus invites us to express and wrestle with our faith in a lifestyle of unbroken community with others. In Western culture however, living in community often is against the flow of how our society works. As culture has morphed deeper and deeper into a strictly individualistic-oriented culture, we now find ourselves in a world where it is not uncommon to not even know the name of our neighbors in the house next to us. What’s even scarier is that we might not even know the person sitting in the church pew next to us.

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Lifestyle

• The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.

  

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky
  • Church
  • Religion
  • Doubt

• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Study

• All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Hopes

• Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Political
  • Differences
  • Particular

• 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
  • Everyday
  • Independence
  • Celebrate

• To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Independence

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

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Character
  • Learn
  • Independence

• What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon Teutonic racial superiority over

  

  Bryan Sykes
  • Doctrine
  • Rome
  • Declaration

• I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Kids
  • House
  • Gun

• I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Desire
  • Parent
  • Prove

• Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Financial
  • Security
  • Insurance

• We think we're near energy independence - nothing could be further from the truth. We're in much better shape now, but the price of a barrel of oil is going to be controlled by the Middle East for the next 10, 20, 30 years for sure.

  

  Michael Mullen
  • Energy
  • Middle
  • Shapes

• Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

  

  Wright Patman
  • People
  • Control
  • Wisdom

• I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Wish
  • Effort
  • Design

• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Independence
  • Constitutes
  • Bulwark

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