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• Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Beach, Islands, Honor

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• We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

  William Faulkner

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

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• The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ideas, Accessories, Inferiority

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• Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Selfish, Taken, Government

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• There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

  Tryon Edwards

  Driven

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.646, Ravenio Books

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• Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

  Rollo May

  Confused, Love Is, Facts

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Single, Freedom, Liberty

  Ho Chi Minh's political slogan as quoted in Jean Sainteny "Ho Chi Minh and His Vietnam: A Personal Memoir" (p. 172), 1972.

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• Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

  H. L. Mencken

  Foundation, Economic, Damn

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

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, 4th Of July, Departure

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• 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

  Life, Single, Blessing

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.608, Delphi Classics

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• The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

  George MacDonald

  Letting Go, Helping, Trouble

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.8243, e-artnow

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• 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

  Retirement, Jobs, Home

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• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, 4th Of July, Blessing

  Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass., 2 Aug. 1826

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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• The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

  Steve Schmidt

  Solitude, Isolation, Happy Independence Day

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• If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

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• The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, Arms

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• Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Sleep, Independent

  "Growing Old in America". Grace Hechinger, Family Circle Magazine, July 25, 1977.

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• Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

  Tobias Smollett

  Heart, Eye, Eagles

  Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Country

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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• In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

  Horace

  Believe, Masters, Bounds

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• 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

  4th Of July, Wine, Brain

  Maya Angelou (2013). “Mom & Me & Mom”, p.77, Random House

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• Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

  Candice Bergen

  Men, Domestic Violence, Waste

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