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Independence Quotes

On the freedom that comes from relying on yourself.

This page centers on independence as a personal trait learned early, often through spending time alone and growing at ease with one's own company. Another line refuses to compromise on that independence once it's established. Continue with Freedom quotes.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if...

Abraham Lincoln

Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

Quotes by Zoe Foster Blake

Emotion Quotes

6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

Quotes by Yitzhak Navon

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Quotes by William Cobbett

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Quotes by Will Durant

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Walt Whitman

Freedom Quotes

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Quotes by Walter Annenberg

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...

Quotes by Virgil Goode

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

Quotes by Victor Ponta

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

Quotes by Valerie Trierweiler

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Quotes by Treat Williams

Identity Quotes

Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that...

Quotes by Ted Olson

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Quotes by Susie Bright

Liberation Quotes

Independence is happiness.

Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

A closing thought calls independence beautiful precisely because it departs and acts on its own terms. See also Identity quotes and Liberation quotes.