Independence Quotes
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
Joseph Heller -
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
Terence McKenna
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More Americans are enjoying the freedom of independence from the chains of welfare
William Reynolds Archer, Jr. -
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 -
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.
Heber J. Grant -
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.
Stephen Covey -
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
Carl L. Becker -
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
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I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
Susie Bright -
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.
Eugen Richter -
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Treat Williams -
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas -
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 -
We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
Bill Clinton
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman -
As long as our independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.
Gaston Miron -
That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.
George Will -
Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence.
Hal Moore -
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
Erma Bombeck -
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression.
Tommy Hilfiger
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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 -
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.
Sue Grafton