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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

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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

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

Quotes by Will Durant

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

Walt Whitman

Freedom Quotes

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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Quotes by Walter Annenberg

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