Top 100 Quotes About Independence
#2. Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done - occasionally what men have not done - thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.
Amelia Earhart
#3. Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It's a great job for a woman because she can work at home and always be there for the children.
Anne Mather
#4. The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
Carl Bernstein
#5. You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
Mike Tyson
#6. For all serious intellectual progress depends upon a certain kind of independence of outside opinion, which cannot exist where the will of the majority is treated with that kind of religious respect which the orthodox give to the will of God.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.
Jon Stewart
#8. I told myself that I loved my independence: being able to do whatever I wanted, go wherever I wanted, eat whatever I wanted, but deep down, I longed to share my life with someone.
Penelope Ward
#9. My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
Valerie Trierweiler
#10. The traditional Indian view was to protect our independence; it was therefore quite consistent with the requirements of the time and the feeling of the people. The world may have been misled by Jawaharlal Nehru's own international projection, which in fact had no reality on the ground.
Subramanian Swamy
#11. Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion.
Louisa May Alcott
#12. A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat
Halldor Laxness
#14. National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education).
Narendra Modi
#15. Happy Independence Day! Let Freedom Stream!!!
David Chiles
#16. When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#17. They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.
Howard Zinn
#18. The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.
Malcolm Gladwell
#19. Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool.
L.M. Montgomery
#20. Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.
Michael Arrington
#21. Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist's office/yoga studio dressing room, call me 'Hey, you look like that girl from 'Mrs. Doubtfire'/'Independence Day'/'Rambling Rose.' There is a good reason for that. I am that girl. More accurately, I was that girl.
Lisa Jakub
#22. It was inevitable that Red China would invade Tibet, and then there would be no place for us two friends of Tibetan independence.
Heinrich Harrer
#23. I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.
Dalai Lama
#24. Damn, I can't wait until it get dark,
So I can light these fireworks up at the park,
And celebrate my independence,
It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.
Kam
#25. The way Misha tells it, he drove like a blind man, giving the car almost full independence to feel its way along, bumping off things, only giving the wheel a spin with the tips of this fingers when the situation verged on life threatening.
Nicole Krauss
#26. Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
Lena Headey
#27. After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
Melina Mercouri
#28. Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#29. True Independence and Freedom can only exist in doing whats right.
Brigham Young
#30. [Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.
Richard Brookhiser
#31. The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.
Thomas Malthus
#32. 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
#33. On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.
James Madison
#34. Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
Oswald Chambers
#35. you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency.
Barbara Kingsolver
#36. A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow
#37. New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
Marsha Blackburn
#38. We want to feel our power and independence, our ability to shape our existence, but we also want to trust that life supports, nourishes, and sustains us.
Elisa Romeo
#40. Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
Edmund Morgan
#42. I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence.
Deborah Rhode
#43. The day after Independence Day, the sulfur from the fireworks mingling with the ocean salt - summer.
Gillian Flynn
#44. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
#45. I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#47. Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham.
Dalai Lama
#48. The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
#49. Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.
John Cornyn
#50. Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
Ron Lewis
#51. The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are entitled to know as much as we can about the person that we're about to entrust with safeguarding our future and the future of our kids.
Joe Biden
#52. I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
Philip Kerr
#53. I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.
Gerry Schwartz
#54. When you live with a potentially life-threatening condition you get used to the thought of dying. You accept it, you push on. The thing that scared me was the picture of dying slowly and painfully, the loss of independence and identity to illness.
Josh Lanyon
#55. The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.
Janet Yellen
#56. The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
John Keegan
#57. I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.
Nicola Sturgeon
#58. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
Ayn Rand
#59. One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others
Gordon B. Hinckley
#61. If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Tony Snow
#62. Above all, film is a business ... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
Mel Gibson
#63. I'm very, very strong on energy independence, as you know, and I think that's the most conservative position. And I have the most conservative position on that.
Donald Trump
#64. One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide ... gather, fall, slide ... each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.
Lisi Harrison
#65. But I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be hurt and 'lacerate' myself
Jack Kerouac
#66. Do you know the greatest gift a parent can give to a child?" she asked, looking around the room. No one answered. "Independence. To allow them go out into the world and make their own decisions, travel their own paths.
Michael Scott
#67. Witchcraft offers freedom, independence and personal power, which is power 'to' not power 'over'. The practice of magic and meditation leads to self-knowledge.
Gabby Benson
#68. The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.
Germaine Greer
#69. I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
Kevin McCarthy
#70. What we have to fight for ... is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.
Adolf Hitler
#71. Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence.
Herman Melville
#72. In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.
Doc Hastings
#73. America ... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
John Quincy Adams
#75. Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.
Raul Garcia
#76. I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
Li Keqiang
#77. Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
Winston Graham
#78. The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity.
Warren Ellis
#79. The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
Jay Inslee
#80. Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness.
Paul Burch
#81. Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
Jose Rizal
#82. Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#83. I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
Fred Thompson
#84. This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.
Jerry Bridges
#85. I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Joyce Stranger
#86. Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.
Cyril Connolly
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Anonymous
#88. I wanted both things: strength in my independence and also this new desire. This felt like the beginning of a new kind of love.
Aspen Matis
#89. It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles A. Beard
#90. Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
Thomas Jefferson
#91. To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#92. The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes.
George Washington
#93. A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin
Sunday Adelaja
#94. It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.
M. Scott Peck
#95. At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.
John Sarbanes
#96. Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.
Sue Thoele
#97. Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#100. Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.
Hillary Clinton
