Independence Quotes

• Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

  

  Noel Carroll
  • Independence
  • Characteristic
  • Runner

• I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

  

  Annie Hill
  • Simplicity
  • Independence
  • Voyaging

• 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

• A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Equality
  • Independence
  • Cases

• 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

• The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

  

  Karl Hess
  • Modern
  • Scare
  • Declaration

• 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

• It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Successful
  • Constitution
  • Democratic

• Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Tyrants

• 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

• A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of the blessed companionship of saints and angels, trust in God as the friend of truth and virtue,--these are the states of mind in which I should live.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Blessed

• Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Important
  • Independence
  • Maintain

• The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Beauty
  • Civilization
  • Dwell

• 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

• Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Independence
  • Interdependence

• A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Giving

• You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.

  

  Daniel H. Wells
  • Giving
  • Path
  • Charity

• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  

  Rollo May
  • Confused
  • Proportion
  • Dependence

• If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Independence

• The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Woman
  • Independence
  • Roads

• This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

  

  David W. Blight
  • American
  • War
  • Revolution

• The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

  

  Paul Gillmor
  • History
  • Sacred
  • Declaration

• Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Difficult

• It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Remember
  • Matter
  • Liberty

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