Independence Quotes - Page 17

• So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.

  Randy Forbes

  America, Liberty, World

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• The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Mean, People, Voting

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• The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Independent, Dislike Someone, Tests

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

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• When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

  Helen Keller

  Strong, Thinking, Rights

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, Choices, Heaven

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• When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Self, Punishment

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.32, Penguin

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• To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Sex, Ambition, Great Day

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• Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

  Hun Sen

  Country, Peace, Rights

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• Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Men, Soul, Desire

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• Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

  Brian Tracy

  Three, Saving, Financial

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• On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.

  James Madison

  Government, Unions, Principles

  James Madison (1910). “The Writings of James Madison: 1819-1836”

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• It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.

  Karl Jaspers

  Greatness, People, May

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• Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

  Molly Ivins

  Winning, Action, Fighter

  "Mother to the MMOB / Bolinas woman mobilizes moms to change country" by Tricia Cambron, www.sfgate.com. July 9, 2004.

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• 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

  Opportunity, America, Promise

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

  Jean Vanier

  Loneliness, People, Community

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• The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Men, Rights

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• Liberty is the result of free individual action,energy and independence.

  Samuel Smiles

  Liberty, Energy, Action

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.17

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• Any child who is self-sufficient, who can tie his shoes, dress or undress himself, reflects in his joy and sense of achievement the image of human dignity which is derived from a sense of independence.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Self, Shoes

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Empowering, True Independence

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.59, Mango Media Inc.

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• Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Labels, Way

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• We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Home, Light, Voice

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• Sanitation is more important than Independence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Important, Sanitation

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• You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Character, People, Helping

  Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

  Coco Chanel

  Needs, Steps, Cases

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