Independence Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Strong, Children, Two

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• 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

  Hobbies, Financial, Kind

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• Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Realizing, Palestinian

  Barack Obama's Speech on the Middle East and North Africa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 19, 2011.

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

  Treat Williams

  Treats, Paine, Declaration

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• To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

  Louis J. Halle

  Men, Cycling, Way

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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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• Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do. Have the spiritual independence to be a Mormon--the best Mormon you can--in your own way. Not the bishop's way. Not the Relief Society president's way. Your way.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Spiritual, Independent, People

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1993). “Lighten Up!”, Deseret Book Company

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• Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

  John Quincy Adams

  Prayer, Heart, America

  Friedrich von Gentz, John Quincy Adams, Richard Loss (1800). “The origin and principles of the American Revolution compared with the origin and principles of the French Revolution: a facsimile reproduction”, Academic Resources Corp

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• Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and move independently ahead. Without independence, without the freedom for new ideas to be tried, to fail, and to ultimately succeed, the world will not move ahead, but rather live in fear of it's own potential

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

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• Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

  Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

  Dark, Age, Favors

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• Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

  Moshe Dayan

  Israel, Limits, States

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• Liberty and personal independence in America are still a concept some here have never known.

  John Longenecker

  America, Liberty, Stills

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• The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and we but obeyed them in pursuing undeviatingly the course they called for. It issued finally in that inestimable state of freedom which alone can ensure to man the enjoyment of his equal rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Practice, Justice

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?  That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?  Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth?  That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Progress, Earth

  Speech on Independence Day at Newburyport, MA, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 04, 1837.

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• I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Independent, Trying

  "Interview with Senator Claire McCaskill". RealClearPolitics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 4, 2010.

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• It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Successful, Two, Government

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• When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Character, Giving, Born

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.49, Jester House Publishing

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• Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

  Stephen Breyer

  Mean, Want, Way

  "Justice For Sale". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

  Stephen Breyer

  Mean, Law, Facts

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• 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

  Country, Strong, Play

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• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  Walter Gilbert

  Virtue, Skepticism, Independence Of Thought

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• I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their rights to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.

  Robert Mugabe

  Zimbabwe, Rights, People

  "'Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks" by Peta Thornycroft, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 26, 2003.

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• Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

  Julius Nyerere

  Real, Depends, Nations

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• 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

  Song, People, Quirky

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