We have collected the best Independence Quotes by famous authors including Maggie Hassan, Dennis Chavez, Betty Ford, Yitzhak Shamir, Nawaz Sharif and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
Maggie Hassan
If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.
Dennis Chavez
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
Betty Ford
In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
Yitzhak Shamir
Drone attacks are against the national sovereignty and a challenge for the country’s autonomy and independence. Therefore, we won’t tolerate these attacks in our territorial jurisdictions.
Nawaz Sharif
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
Harry S Truman
Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.
John Shimkus
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth
I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound – you know, really original stuff.
Liz Phair
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
Norma Shearer
Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.
Cole Younger
I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.
Olivia Holt
Men spend their whole lives showing that they’re strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
George Weinberg
Our position is that we do not accept conditions of any kind which may affect the independence and sovereignty of our country just with the view to solve economic problems existing between the United States and Cuba.
Fidel Castro
What’s brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature’s God, not from government.
Paul Ryan
We are not a gigantic state, we do not have nuclear weapons, but our army is sufficiently capable to respond to any threat… Therefore, we will protect our patch of land, our statehood, and our independence.
Alexander Lukashenko
The fact is that we cannot drill our way to independence. We cannot drill our way to freedom, and we cannot drill our way to create jobs in this country.
Jay Inslee
‘Independence Day,’ ever since we did it, there’s been enormous pressure to follow it up.
Dean Devlin
I’ve embraced the single life and all the glorious independence it has to offer.
Andi Dorfman
I’ve always backed energy independence policies, but I’ve heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.
Mark Kirk
My parents split when I was one-year old and I haven’t lived with my father since. He is a creative spirit and has always cherished his independence.
Antara Mali
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney
America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there’s no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country.
Tony Evans
Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
Jim Gerlach
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter
We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
Hjalmar Branting
‘The White Woman on the Green Bicycle’ is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.
Monique Roffey
The requirement for military force is clear when looking at the first of the nine points agreed in Vienna, which states that ‘Syria’s unity, independence, territorial integrity and secular character are fundamental.’
Crispin Blunt
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
Carl Spitteler
There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
Mahmoud Abbas
I think that my parents’ divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don’t know what’s going to happen in the future.
Felicity Jones
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Ho Chi Minh
Nowadays, independence is so promoted, it would be crazy for me to say I’d want a traditional woman who wants to stay at home.
Omarion
I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
Alfredo Stroessner
After Independence, there were periods of very high taxation. So you didn’t create wealth, how will you distribute it? When was the first time capital gains tax was introduced? It was 1992 March. Till then, everything was taxed one way.
Shiv Nadar
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states, and the organic laws of the territories all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.
Susan B. Anthony
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation’s Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America’s flag and the ideals it represents.
Ron Lewis
My aunt was a chef and she inspired me deeply so she was a huge motivator but more than anything it was a quest for independence and freedom that lead me to an L.A. Culinary School.
Marcela Valladolid
The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.
Karren Brady
Independence doesn’t – doesn’t equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.
Gary Bauer
Everyone from Silesians to Sicilians to Scots seems to want autonomy or independence. The British voted to leave the European Union, and hostility to the superstate is rising across the continent.
Max Boot
Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Energy independence is very important to me.
Tomi Lahren
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a core independence and dignity you get when you control your own time.
Travis Kalanick
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Lionel Trilling
To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn’t permit a middle road.
Sukarno
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
Parker Posey
A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.
James H. Douglas, Jr.
We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state… Not just in exceptional moments.
Carles Puigdemont
I’ve always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
Patricia Heaton
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan
Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from superheroes to crime dramas.
Deeyah Khan
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.
Raf Simons
I wish to reiterate solemnly China’s continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.
Li Keqiang
The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success. I remember meetings with my label saying it had no radio singles. For me, the second album was a gesture of independence.
Christine and the Queens
The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
There’s a learned helplessness for a lot of people who are leaving Westboro because you’re not allowed to have any kind of independence when you are there so a lot of people don’t have practical life skills.
Megan Phelps-Roper
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
Anna Quindlen
I don’t know what 15-year-old doesn’t have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.
Michelle Williams
The independence of content creation without fearing what’s going to be censored has relieved a lot of filmmakers in India.
Shweta Basu Prasad
Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.
Steven Crowder
In 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‘the loss of China’ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
Noam Chomsky
As a teenager, I had a weakness for freedom fighters. When Mugabe came to London to negotiate independence, I vanished from home to stand outside his hotel. I was very disappointed that he looked like a dorky teacher.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico; so much so that her independence and capability of sustaining herself are almost as essential to our prosperity and the maintenance of our institutions as they are to hers.
John C. Calhoun
Our clients value our independence as the leading partner of both the established providers and emerging players.
Pierre Nanterme
It’s great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.
Tavi Gevinson
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Warren Farrell
See, Independence means freedom, for me, more specifically, freedom of speech which we seem to have lost.
Saswata Chatterjee
Some experiences can give you a chip on your shoulder, but they also teach you the value of independence and looking out for yourself.
Rick Ross
When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.
Marquis de Lafayette
The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.
Emma Bonino
I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.
Tan Cheng Bock
For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.
Bernhard von Bulow
We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally’s strategic independence from Europe.
Richard Perle
Acumen Fund’s patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya’s smallholder farmers.
Jacqueline Novogratz
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Mercy Otis Warren
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 California has always been.
Ted Olson
Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!
William Lloyd Garrison
Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.
Nelson Mandela
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
Julian Assange
I’m completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
Dane Cook
The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life.
Robert Kennedy
Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
Bob Ney
Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.
Robert Casey
I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
Valerie Trierweiler
The Remain campaign… I’ve never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we’ll do our best to make sure that Britain’s Parliamentary independence isn’t eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.
Boris Johnson
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They’re concerned about energy independence. They’re concerned about functional government.
Mike Huckabee
What belongs to our independence and national sovereignty, we will never give up.
Nguyen Phu Trong
Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh
I just like my independence and freedom to come and go and not have an entourage.
Fred Eychaner
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.
Howard Zinn
Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx.
Sukarno
I have no doubt that if confirmed, Judge Gorsuch would help to restore confidence in the rule of law. His years on the bench reveal a commitment to judicial independence – a record that should give the American people confidence that he will not compromise principle to favor the president who appointed him.
Neal Katyal
We will resolutely and persistently maintain independence while fighting for the protection of our sovereignty, but we must maintain a peaceful environment for development.
Nguyen Phu Trong
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Thomas Erskine
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Henry Lawson
Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.
Neal Katyal
Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.
Samuel West
I think part of the way in which kids develop emotional and psychological resiliency is by having some independence.
Kim Brooks
Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.
Stephanie Coontz
India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
This game wears on you. It tears you down. It’s perpetual motion for some people who’ve achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z – they don’t need to do music anymore. But there’s people who need it. And in that need, that’s when it’s tough and it tears you to pieces.
Lupe Fiasco
From my perspective, we must create an equitable path forward to energy independence, not only from foreign countries, but also independence from fossil fuels.
John Fetterman
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.
Abhijit Banerjee
No, I don’t think I’ve ever really favoured English independence. My view is that if the Scots want to be independent then we should aim for the same thing.
Roger Scruton
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft
States that have experienced revolutions or have acquired their independence from empires – such as the U.S. or Australia – tend to celebrate their constitutional documents and put them on show in special galleries so that every citizen can become familiar with them. In the U.K., this is not properly done.
Linda Colley
It’s hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
Ted Deutch
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
Fred Thompson
I personally think the male and female roles have changed dramatically in the past few decades. Men are no longer the breadwinners. Financial independence for a woman is a huge thing.
Andrea Jeremiah
India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington
The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.
Paul Gillmor
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation’s survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
Gary Bauer
I don’t have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It’s what’s most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.
Giorgio Armani
Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.
Keith O’Brien
The independence once represented by the car has been replaced by cell phones and social networks, which are now at the forefront of people’s expression of freedom and access. Once a symbol of ‘coming of age,’ many drivers are waiting longer to get their licenses.
John Zimmer
Yet we have learned from the Scottish independence vote and with Brexit what referendums do to our politics. They foster bitter divisions in ways that parliamentary elections tend not to do.
Owen Jones
I’m not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We’ll continue to argue the case.
Nicola Sturgeon
I discovered my path to independence through technology as well as the potential for a global lifeline for trans people around the world who were looking for the same.
Angelica Ross
It’s essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.
George Packer
My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance.
Pierre Poilievre
For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.
Noam Chomsky
Football was the best route to obtain my independence.
John David Washington
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Hedy Lamarr
As for ‘Independence Day,’ we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.
Dean Devlin
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet
My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India’s independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi’s movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.
Ro Khanna
The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don’t quite manage to live up to them.
Jay Parini
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn’t have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
Sonia Sotomayor
I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
Moshe Sharett
Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.
Rory Bremner
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.
Yitzhak Navon
I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia, and I have done that.
Abigail Spanberger
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
Jalal Talabani
I remember being led to a shed by my father for the unveiling of a beautiful bicycle, equipped with stabilizers, on Christmas Day. I must have been four or five and realized that this was my first ride into independence.
Alexander Gilkes
We excuse movies like ‘Independence Day’ that really lack logic and say, ‘It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s a ride.’ I thought a movie was a movie and a ride was a ride.
Barry Levinson
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, ‘Because I’ve always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.’ I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.
Richard Russo
I’d rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
Ahmed Zewail
I think my legacy will be in what most people don’t like about me: my style – the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I’m criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
Joaquim Barbosa
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor W. Adorno
In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
Alexander Dubcek
American values come by helping countries fight corruption to build stability. American values flow through tackling climate change and building energy independence. American values come through humanitarian assistance whereby we try to stop catastrophes from happening.
Chris Murphy
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn’t understand them.
Ferdinand Marcos
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
Paul Robeson
I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
Davy Crockett
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Crystal Eastman
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes
It’s painful to see that after Independence, India hasn’t won a single Olympic medal in athletics.
Milkha Singh
A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather
The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
Dan Lipinski
The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
Carles Puigdemont
I’m one of seven kids, and I love being around a bunch of siblings because I think it teaches you independence, and it teaches you how to grow up quickly and also just be a good friend and be a good sister.
Abby Huntsman
New York has influenced me a lot in terms of my own independence. I’m really struck by the idea of authenticity, and I think New York embodies that idea, even though people are like, ‘I miss the old New York.’ But at its core, it has this natural, authentic energy. L.A. lacks that idea; it’s painted over.
Paloma Elsesser
First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.
Rose Leslie
Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.
Jan Schakowsky
I look forward to demonstrating the greatest integrity of fairness and independence that any arm of the city should have and does have.
Maya Wiley
If Hong Kong could exercise democratic self-governance under the sovereignty of China, it would not be necessary for us to take this step on the path toward independence.
Joshua Wong
I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn’t choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.
Nicola Sturgeon
When you lose your parents when you’re a kid, you kind of get this freedom and sense of independence way younger. And obviously I wish my mum had never died but I like the way my life turned out because of who that turned me into.
Dawn O’Porter
‘Laura’ was overtly political for sure. Caspary was trying to make a point about women and independence and how men viewed them, with derision or condescension or on a pedestal, when the real person was ignored.
Sarah Weinman
I have grown up in a family where every one is a part of the defence forces, so freedom and everything related to independence runs deep down my veins.
Nikita Dutta
I really love my family. The more independence that I get and the more freedom that I have, the more interested I am in being a dedicated and involved family member.
Maya Hawke
Nowadays, you can’t broadcast dodgy special effects and then put up a caption saying, ‘Sorry, this is what the budget was.’ You have to do it with high production values because the audience has been spoilt by the special effects on things like ‘The X Files’ and ‘Independence Day.’
Jed Mercurio
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson
To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.
Joe Mansueto
British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making it ripe for independence.
Michael Portillo
The world is independent of my will.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.
H. Jon Benjamin
The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It’s a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.
Meghan Daum
I will always be possessive about creative independence – why is why I can’t work with stars. I don’t even let actors come to the monitor and see the shot.
Luv Ranjan
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
Cole Younger
I believe that Greenland will achieve independence during the time I am still active in politics.
Aleqa Hammond
Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.
Vladimir Putin
I don’t believe there will be anyone who will use violence or who will want to provoke violence that will tarnish the irreproachable image of the Catalan independence movement as pacifist.
Carles Puigdemont
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.
William J. H. Boetcker
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph’s farther to the northward.
Francis Parkman
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
Tom Allen
Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area – and our independence.
Mario Draghi
NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation.
Slobodan Milosevic
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Jim DeMint
I don’t have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
Cyndi Lauper
Since being quite young, I’ve had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
Lena Headey
In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor.
Kim Brooks
If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
Bernie Sanders
My family come from Cyprus. Both my father and my grandfather worked on the British bases there, and as the British government granted independence to Cyprus, they granted British passports to those who worked with them.
Theo Paphitis
I believe that being in a position, as a central bank, to influence economic growth does not mean losing independence.
Elvira Nabiullina
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
Said Musa
As president, Barack Obama has the potential to finally bring our country together to meet the enormous challenges ahead. This includes restoring economic prosperity, moving toward energy independence, delivering affordable health care for all, and implementing a responsible, effective foreign policy.
Amy Klobuchar
If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground.
Herman Cain
I’ve never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave.
Maya Hawke
Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and The Sex Pistols may come and go, but rebellion remains a key part of the rock n’ roll experience. However, that rebellion – the outgrowth of a youthful search for independence and identity – doesn’t always take the same form.
Robert Hilburn
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
When I was 11 I went to New York with my mum, dad and sister. I felt like I was on a movie set the whole time and loved being over there on Independence Day.
Amy Macdonald
I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette ‘Jagged Little Pill’ album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
Felicity Jones
It was my mother’s dream to have a few houses next door to each other, where they could live in one, and my brother and I could live in the others, where we are close but also had independence.
Teresa Ruiz
After all these years of Independence, after celebrating this special occasion for all these years, why there’s no drinking water that’s free of cost? Why we have to buy packaged mineral water?
Saswata Chatterjee
I think it’s a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that’s a march to folly.
Anna Eshoo
What attracted me to Melania is her strength, her independence, her doesn’t-matter-what-anybody-else-thinks attitude.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I’ve been saying, ‘It’s not my country; I don’t live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics’.
Diana Gabaldon
I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
Walter Annenberg
Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.
Chad Wolf
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches – legislative, executive and judicial – and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
J. Reuben Clark
It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
Jose Rizal
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
Bernhard von Bulow
I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.
Glenn Beck
The ‘Guardian”s unique ownership structure safeguards our editorial independence from commercial or political interference and means we can reinvest any money we receive into this journalism that matters so much.
Katharine Viner
Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.
Jeannie Mai
Stand-up is my favorite thing I’ve ever done. There’s so much independence.
Rita Rudner
In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued ‘Common Sense,’ advocating independence from Great Britain.
Mike Crapo
The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
George Richards Minot
Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Allen Weinstein
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.
Diane von Furstenberg
My parents were very unusual. They were pro-women and independence and they wanted me to have my own career. And because of my lineage, every door was opened for me.
Anoushka Shankar
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Edward Sapir
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it’s just about projects that turn me on.
Matt LeBlanc
I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things – I mean, it takes, you know, it’s just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.
Sue Townsend
Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you’ve reached.
Kenneth Grahame
I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.
R. Madhavan
It’s important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
Tamara Mellon
Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It’s an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
Carles Puigdemont
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I’ve thought maybe I’m really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I’ve found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
Pam Dawber
I don’t think it’s a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don’t know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
Daniel H. Pink
Independence of Judiciary means independence from Executive and Legislature, but not independence from accountability.
Prashant Bhushan
While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.
Eliot Engel
I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown – except for when men misnomer ‘confident’ with ‘poised’ and ‘passionate’ with ‘feisty.’ I work hard.
Neri Oxman
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
James Madison
The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
Samuel P. Huntington
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.
Michael McCaul
I joined the People’s Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence.
Nguyen Tan Dung
The power in Washington, D.C., is centered on the status quo – outdated systems, models, and programs built for a previous century. With more silicon and less concrete, we can open up those models to return power and independence to every man, woman, and child.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I believe in being a happy conservative: that you’re happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
Kevin McCarthy
I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?
Elisabeth Shue
My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.
Marlee Matlin
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
William Hague
George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way – where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul’s way. You know, ‘cuz they were the writers.
Ringo Starr
I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.
John B. Hood
Education, leading to financial independence, has surely made women more empowered.
Sudha Murty
For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person’s needs would be hard to countenance.
Mariella Frostrup
In the drive to prove our status as a world-class city, let’s stay true to our democratic legacy and what Boston has already given to the world: informed independence and true debate.
Michelle Wu
Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.
Omar al-Bashir
I like living at home: I’ve been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in ‘Love Actually’, and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it’s nice to come back home.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
To research my book ‘Me the People’ – in which I have rewritten the entire Constitution of the United States – I flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. I bused to Philly, the home of independence. I even, if you can believe it, read the Constitution of the United States.
Kevin Bleyer
Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
Chiang Kai-shek
My vision is that our country should be integrated in the EU, to transfer a part of our independence there. It is also our duty to do it, if we want to establish trade and a sound economy. This is the vision that I am working on and I will continue to work in the future.
Ibrahim Rugova
Independence is doing what you want to do, knowing that you’re happy with the decisions you’re making and that it’s the best for you.
Jorja Smith
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He’s a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.
Nicolas Maduro
Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
Maya Angelou
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra
Honoring our nation’s heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me – especially on Independence Day.
Joey Chestnut
It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.
Mitch McConnell
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Sarah Jessica Parker
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
Brigham Young
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
Theodor Mommsen
The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.
Sun Yat-sen
I think the four major leagues ought to set up a joint commission – say, of retired judges – to rule on athletes who are accused of doing bad things away from the game. Then each league would retain its independence in determining what penalties their players should get for infractions committed within the sport.
Frank Deford
I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose.
Kris Kristofferson
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle’s house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
Nandan Nilekani
I’m not chasing independence, I’m chasing Walt Disney. I’m looking for a large piece of that box-office pie, not a tiny piece of that box-office pie.
Byron Allen
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
Albert II of Belgium
One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.
Frans Timmermans
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability.
John Cornyn
I’m totally committed to the cause of individuality. That’s the only thing I stand by: independence.
Juliana Hatfield
Financial independence could be one of the factors, but most 65 plus artistes in our industry wish to continue working for the passion they have for their craft.
Ashok Saraf
Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness – I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.
Rachel Bloom
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
Aslan Maskhadov
There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.
Jeb Hensarling
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
John Quincy Adams
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one’s faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.
Kofi Annan
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico’s Independence Day.
Joe Baca
Israeli independence – what we Arabs call al-Naqba, ‘The Catastrophe’ – it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.
Sayed Kashua
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats’ selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Mercy Otis Warren
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
Elton Gallegly
It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.
Thom Tillis
The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it’s done the opposite. It’s made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids’ lives that I don’t think I had.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
Anna Quindlen
We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.
Charles Boustany
My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that.
Don Ho
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.
Deborah Tannen
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony
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.
Thom Tillis
The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
Herman Cain
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.
Malcolm Turnbull
Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
David Ben-Gurion
What I tell my kids is, ‘I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.’
Michelle Obama
The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.
Alan Dershowitz
As long as the United States – and the world – gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
My mother insists women must have financial independence, which is why I completed my degree in medicine.
Sai Pallavi
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
Caroline Kennedy
For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence – just the biggest.
Monica Seles
When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.
Richard Branson
The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
William Godwin
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
Robert Toombs
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton’s misconduct.
Jeff Greenfield
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it.
John Adams
More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.
Diane Greene
Your life must be a progression towards ownership – first mentally of your independence, and then physically of your work, owning what you produce.
Robert Greene
The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.
Roger Scruton
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Independence is fun, especially when there’s a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.
Deborah Moggach
I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child’s needs so constantly is that they don’t grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.
Alanis Morissette
I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country.
Herman Cain
From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other’s houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that’s a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.
Rebecca Stead
I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don’t care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn’t be driving a car if you’re over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Evel Knievel
U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem.
Lynn Davies
Even 150 years of the first war of Independence was marked with a series of programs, but somehow the Jallianwala Bagh incident hasn’t been given the attention it deserves.
Gulzar
I’m always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.
Jessica Williams
I’ve always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash
Since the struggle for our nation’s independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.
Alexander Vindman
It’s my view that human dignity – an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics – resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
Maurice Saatchi
The Fed’s independence is critical.
Ben Bernanke
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
Victor Ponta
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
B. R. Ambedkar
My biggest financial fear is dying and not leaving enough to see my daughter through to adulthood and financial independence.
Laila Rouass
To know how far I’ve come as a person and an entertainer and a businesswoman, I just hope I represent independence and intelligence and athleticism – everything that a woman should want to be.
Charlotte Flair
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
Kuno Becker
Let’s make sure we’re doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.
Cory Gardner
I don’t like asking people for things, so if I can do it myself, that’s the mindset I have. My dad is very much a do-it-yourself kind of person, so I had a strong sense of independence.
Nathan Blecharczyk
I’m for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It’s her choice.
Jack Kevorkian
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
Mercy Otis Warren
The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.
Haris Pasovic
It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.
Gerald F. Lieberman
The rule of law and the independence of the judiciary underpin our democracy and lie at the heart of our way of life. They are the very cornerstone of our freedoms.
David Lidington
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
William J. Clinton
I think my independence was a big help to getting Judges Roberts and Alito confirmed, and I think that’s recognized.
Arlen Specter
I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never – Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.
Ariel Sharon
What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living – and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.
Brooke Shields
For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon.
Amanda Foreman
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
Jose Rizal
I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
Philip Kerr
It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James Baldwin
At a time when special interest money is being showered on legislators in Washington, grassroots donors offer members of Congress a refreshing independence. The $25 and $50 donor is not looking for special favors. He or she is simply expecting their Congressman to go do the right thing.
John Sarbanes
Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.
Ben Sasse
Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That’s what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what’s uncomfortable.
John David Washington
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
Eddie Vedder
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
Herbert Croly
‘But,’ say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, ‘we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.’ On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
Samuel Adams
Many Anglo-Indians who had lived through the last days of the Raj were old, and I felt it was important to meet them and record their memories of what life had been like for them under the British and how it had changed after India’s independence.
Karan Kapoor
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get older, children sleep in they own room not in Mom and Dad’s room. What are we training them for? It’s independence, because that’s what being empowered is all about.
Sheena Iyengar
I think there’s great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
Thomas Frank
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
Octavio Paz
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert
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.
Kim Il-sung
In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
Andrew Jackson
Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.
Kim Jong-un
We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won’t be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.
Alexander Lukashenko
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
Tariq Ali
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it’s another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
Carla Bruni
Coming to the Waratahs was the first time I felt I gained some independence. I was telling my parents I had to go out on my own, and learn and grow, and if I made mistakes, then so be it.
Israel Folau
We, the French, are viscerally attached to our laicite, our sovereignty, our independence, our values. The world knows that when France is attacked, it is liberty that is dealt a blow.
Marine Le Pen
President after president has said energy independence is critical. But then you have the EPA tasked to go after American companies producing coal and penalizing them. You can’t have it both ways.
Corey Lewandowski
He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
Carles Puigdemont
I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Lisa Murkowski
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt’s proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.
Chiang Kai-shek
We need a Supreme Court justice who will restore fairness, balance, and independence to the highest level of the judiciary. Based on his record, I do not believe Gorsuch would be that kind of justice.
Bob Casey, Jr.
It took 16 years after our independence for the opposition to win even one elected seat. And 23 years after 1988, when the GRC system was introduced, for the opposition to win one GRC.
Pritam Singh
I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
Ingrid Bergman
Work requirements offer opportunities to lifting individuals out of poverty, empower them with the dignity of work and self-reliability while also allowing states to control the costs of their Medicaid programs. They also assist people to gain the skills necessary for long-term independence and success.
Chris Sununu
The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney
We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain – if that’s what the Catalan people choose – would be accomplished.
Carles Puigdemont
Journalists prize independence – not teamwork.
Ken Auletta
With all its being, the Labor Party supports Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. Labor built the state, and its leaders formulated the Declaration of Independence, the foundational document that anchors Israel as a Jewish state.
Isaac Herzog
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.
Michael Pollan
I’m a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
Sally Phillips
To the European immigrant – that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life – the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
Herbert Croly
Here’s the American situation – we have moved from a culture of independence to a culture of dependence. We have moved from capitalism into the direction of socialism. We have moved from being a beacon of strength internationally to a position of weakness.
Carlos Beruff
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
Montesquieu
Every party faces ups and downs. After independence, parties like Jansangh and BJP had been finished.
Mayawati
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition – the divine right of kings.
Ezra Taft Benson
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
Leland Stanford
Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.
Pete Hamill
Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn’t make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what’s expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.
Neil Gorsuch
There’s no such thing as an independent person.
Peter Jennings
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.
John Boyle O’Reilly
Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Treat Williams
Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn’t want to do it.
Ian Smith
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
Eavan Boland
There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
‘Chocolat’ was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot – a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
Claire Denis
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
Jenny Shipley
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow
Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
B. Carroll Reece
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
Jidenna
Injustice in the end produces independence.
Voltaire
There are broad freedoms in Israel. In fact, Israel’s Declaration of Independence grants all Israel’s inhabitants equality of social and political rights irrespective of religion, race or gender.
Lee Zeldin
Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.
Bobby Kotick
I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.
Jordi Cuixart
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
Gerry Adams
We made ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. ‘Jimmy’s Hall’ would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later.
Ken Loach
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.
William Hague
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
Lajos Kossuth
Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable.
Jerome Powell
We must first and foremost defend Hungary’s independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
Viktor Orban
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Rosa Luxemburg
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
I must recall with gratitude those 178 Jewish women and men who participated in the Estonian War of Independence. Both of our nations know what it means to keep your identity and freedom even under the pressure of foreign powers, and we can be proud of their achievements.
Kersti Kaljulaid
The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses’ cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.
Kim Jong-un
I don’t have luxurious tastes or great needs, but my independence is worth a lot to me.
Emmanuel Macron
The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.
Kofi Annan
The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman
I’m a huge fan of the first ‘Independence Day.’ It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was… I loved it.
Maika Monroe
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
