Independence Quotes - Page 16

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. 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. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels.

Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

Are you really going to let a toilet stand in the way of you and financial independence?

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.