Independence Quotes - Page 9

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Really, then, our problem is not weakness, but independence! And in covenant, you die to independent living.

We may first observe that communism and socialism - which we shall hereafter group together and dub Statism - cannot live with Christianity nor with any religion that postulates a Creator such as the Declaration of Independence recognizes. The slaves of Statism must know no power, no authority, no source of blessing, no God, but the State.

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is collectively decided to be good.

I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.

It's not radical Islam that worries the US -- it's independence

Freedom and independence is my character.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

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. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting on one's powers, it is necessary to follow this path of unremitting toil.

I like independence, I like creating my own world, not being in a system. There are more possibilities, I think.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.