Independence Quotes

• 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

• Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.

  

  Chieko N. Okazaki
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Enough

• Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Freedom
  • Independence

• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  

  Walter Wink
  • People
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

  

  George Weinberg
  • Men
  • Value
  • Independence

• More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare

  

  William Reynolds Archer, Jr.
  • Independence
  • Welfare
  • Chains

• It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Property

• 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

• Independence is happiness.

  

  Susan B. Anthony
  • Happiness
  • Independence

• Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Dream
  • Desire
  • Spiritual

• Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Treat Williams
  • Independence

• To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

  

  Carl L. Becker
  • Philosophy
  • Independence

• Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Summer
  • Parent
  • Independence

• American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Style
  • Confidence
  • Diversity

• The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • World
  • Celebration
  • Journalist

• The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Freedom
  • Independence
  • United Nations

• I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the last 49 years, they would move on Washington; they would not wait for an election....It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States!

  

  George W. Malone
  • Destroy
  • Independence
  • Congress

• The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world.

  

  Elinor Carucci
  • Free
  • Camera
  • Close

• We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Independence

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

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Independence
  • Individuality

• Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Children
  • Losing
  • Independence

• As long as our independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

  

  Gaston Miron
  • Independence
  • Remains
  • Achieved

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