Independence Quotes - Page 3

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

[Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

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

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .

All good things are wild and free.

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done - that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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.

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.