Independence Quotes - Page 4

When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.

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.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you? Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next? It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.

I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.

Why seek a doctrine? As soon as you have a doctrine, you fall into dualistic thought.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!