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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

Quotes by Zoe Foster Blake

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.

Quotes by Yitzhak Navon

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

Quotes by William F. Buckley, Jr.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Quotes by William Cobbett

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Quotes by Will Durant

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

Walt Whitman

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

Quotes by Walter Annenberg

The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.

Quotes by Virgil Goode

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

Quotes by Victor Ponta

I built my entire life on the idea of independence.

Quotes by Valerie Trierweiler

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

Quotes by Treat Williams

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.

Quotes by Thom Tillis

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.

Quotes by Ted Olson

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

Quotes by Tariq Ali

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

Quotes by Susie Bright

Independence is happiness.

Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

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.

Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.

Quotes by Steven Crowder

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Quotes by Steve Erickson

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.

Quotes by Seth Low

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

Quotes by Saul Alinsky

Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.

Quotes by Sanjaya Baru

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Quotes by Said Musa

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski

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.

Quotes by Ryszard Kapuscinski

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.

Quotes by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

Quotes by Rosa Luxemburg

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.

Quotes by Roger Scruton

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

Quotes by Robert Zoellick

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.

Quotes by Robert M. Pirsig

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Quotes by Rita Rudner

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

Quotes by Richard Shelby

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Quotes by Richard Perle

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.

Quotes by Richard Grant

Energy independence and energy security are really two different things.

Quotes by Rex Tillerson

Women are living independently, but we don't yet have the social and economic policies behind us to support that independence.

Quotes by Rebecca Traister

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

Quotes by Raf Simons

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Quotes by Rafael Cruz

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.

Quotes by Philip Hammond

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

Quotes by Pete McCloskey

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

Quotes by Paul Robeson

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.

Quotes by Paul Ryan

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

Quotes by Paul Gillmor

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.

Quotes by Paul Gillmor

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

Quotes by Pat Robertson

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.

Quotes by Pat Buchanan

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.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

Independence is a very subjective assessment.

Quotes by P. Chidambaram

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.

Quotes by Owen Jones

As a young African, the sense of opportunity that fills my head on a daily basis is, I suspect, reminiscent of how young Africans felt at the cusp of independence.

Quotes by Ory Okolloh

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

Quotes by Omar Bongo

Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.

Quotes by Omar al-Bashir

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.

Quotes by Olivia Holt

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.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

Quotes by Norman Finkelstein

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.

Quotes by Nguyen Tan Dung

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.

Quotes by Neil Gorsuch

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.

Quotes by Nawaz Sharif

When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

Quotes by Nandan Nilekani

While the seeming independence of the federal judiciary has played a vital part in making its actions virtual Holy Writ for the bulk of the people, it is also and ever true that the judiciary is part and parcel of the government apparatus and appointed by the executive and legislative branches.

Quotes by Murray Rothbard

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

Quotes by Muqtada al Sadr

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.

Quotes by Montesquieu

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.

Quotes by Mohamed El-Erian

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Quotes by Mitch McConnell

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

Quotes by Milos Zeman

In January 1776, Thomas Paine issued 'Common Sense,' advocating independence from Great Britain.

Quotes by Mike Crapo

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

Quotes by Michelle Williams

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Quotes by Michelle Williams

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.

Quotes by Michael Portillo

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.

Quotes by Michael McCaul

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

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.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

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.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

Quotes by Mario Draghi

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.

Quotes by Marine Le Pen

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Quotes by Marianne Moore

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Quotes by Mahalia Jackson

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.

Quotes by Mahmoud Abbas

The world is independent of my will.

Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

Quotes by Louis Gossett, Jr.

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.

Quotes by Liz Williams

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

Quotes by Lionel Shriver

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.

Quotes by Linda Colley

I wish to reiterate solemnly China's continued firm support to Pakistan in its efforts to uphold independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.

Quotes by Li Keqiang

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.

Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

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.

Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

Quotes by L. Neil Smith

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.

Quotes by Kuno Becker

The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.

Quotes by Kim Jong-un

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Quotes by Ken Auletta

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

Quotes by Karren Brady

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.

Quotes by Jose Rizal

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.

Quotes by Jose Rizal

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

Quotes by Jordi Cuixart

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.

Quotes by John Shimkus

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Quotes by John Piper

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

Quotes by John Marshall

We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.

Quotes by John Garamendi

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