Independence Quotes - Page 14

• Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Men

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• Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Civilization, Progress, Liberty

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• Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Men, Humanity

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

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

  Epicurus

  Future, Men, He Man

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• Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

  Vaclav Havel

  Respect, Independent, Self

  "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• 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

  Country, Thinking, Order

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• The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Future, Motherhood

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

  George W. Bush

  Freedom, Liberty, Firsts

  George W. Bush's address on War on Terror and Upcoming Iraqi Elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 12, 2005.

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Father, Liberty

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• America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She well knows that by enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standards of freedom.

  John Quincy Adams

  War, Ambition, Color

  Speech on Independence Day at the United States House of Representatives, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1821.

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• Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

  Martina McBride

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

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• We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Father, Science, Age

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• While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

  Edward Jenner

  Science, Discovery, Vaccines

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• The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every other mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport". Book by John Quincy Adams (p.50), 1837.

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• In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Sacred, Aids

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.396, Library of America

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• I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are for everyone-including unborn children. We are a society with enough compassion and wealth and love to care for both mothers and their children, to seek the promise and potential in every life.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government... All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Eye, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson (1943). “Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction”

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• Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment, to greater and greater autonomy of individuals, greater and greater development of sense organs and nervous systems conveying and processing information about the state of the organism's surroundings, and finally greater and greater consciousness. You can call this direction progress or by some other name.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Simple, Names, Progress

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• Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Attachment, Individuality, Remember

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• We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

  Karen Armstrong

  Gratitude, Hard Work, Achievement

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• The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

  John Truman Stoddert

  Freedom, Choices, Liberty

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• Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.

  Sam Houston

  Perseverance, War, Moving

  "Sam Houston". Book by James L. Haley, p. 397, 2004.

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• Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it.

  Sam Houston

  Brother, Husband, War

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• But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Declaration

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.18, Penguin

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• Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Truth, Health, Conformity

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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